Why doesn’t it seem sufficiently important to you? Seems to me like this is the first frontier of the consequences of AI that are obvious and talked about, but invisible in the sense where they’re the water in which we’re submerged so we assume we can’t do anything about it. Recommender systems are misaligned AI, and have been for decades. This is obvious by the documented effects on depression, anxiety, and political polarization (Stuart Russel talks about the later in that recommender systems radicalize because it’s easier to predict and control the attention of someone who is radicalized). This https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai demonstrates the first rumblings of the next wave of similar consequences. Addressing the harms of the recommender systems is training wheels for being prepared for the next wave of persuasive AI. And thinking about how these things extend identity and consciousness in the way that McLuhan would claim that electric media does for civilization, would give us insight into how to engineer resilience.
Why doesn’t it seem sufficiently important to you? Seems to me like this is the first frontier of the consequences of AI that are obvious and talked about, but invisible in the sense where they’re the water in which we’re submerged so we assume we can’t do anything about it. Recommender systems are misaligned AI, and have been for decades. This is obvious by the documented effects on depression, anxiety, and political polarization (Stuart Russel talks about the later in that recommender systems radicalize because it’s easier to predict and control the attention of someone who is radicalized). This https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai demonstrates the first rumblings of the next wave of similar consequences. Addressing the harms of the recommender systems is training wheels for being prepared for the next wave of persuasive AI. And thinking about how these things extend identity and consciousness in the way that McLuhan would claim that electric media does for civilization, would give us insight into how to engineer resilience.