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The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt with Tristan Harris and the Center for Humane Technology
Suicides. Self-harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents, and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case that the conditions that led to today’s teenage mental health crisis can be turned around - with specific, achievable actions we all can take starting today.
This episode was recorded live at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club.
Corrections:
1) Tristan mentions that 40 Attorneys General have filed a lawsuit against Meta for allegedly fostering addiction among children and teens through their products. However, the actual number is 42 Attorneys General who are taking legal action against Meta.
2) Tristan mentions that there's a billion dollars a year going into fund the Truth Initiative to educate kids about smoking and vaping. The correct number is roughly $100 million per year.
Clarification: Jonathan refers to the Wait Until 8th pledge. By signing the pledge, a parent promises not to give their child a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade. The pledge becomes active once at least ten other families from their child’s grade pledge the same.
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Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis
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Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case that the conditions that led to today’s teenage mental health crisis can ...
Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller
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Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make sure they win AI supremacy. Correction: The latest available Nvidia chip is the Hopper H100 GPU, which has 80 billion transistors. Since the first commercially available chip had four transistors, the Hopper actually has 20 billion times that numb...
Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang
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What does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish? Just in time for election season, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss healthy information ecosystems, resilience to cyberattacks, how to “prebunk” deepfakes, and more. RECOMMENDED MEDIA Testing Theories of American ...
U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?
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Was it political progress, or just political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments - including Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to families who lost children following social media abuse. Our panel of experts, including Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, untangles the explosive hearing, and offers a look ahead, as well. How will this hearing im...
Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet
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Over the past year, a tsunami of apps that digitally strip the clothes off real people has hit the market. Now anyone can create fake non-consensual sexual images in just a few clicks. With cases proliferating in high schools, guest presenter Laurie Segall talks to legal scholar Mary Anne Franks about the AI-enabled rise in deep fake porn and what we can do about it. Correction: Laurie refers t...
Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei
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We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI - summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code - sounds more... magical. So, what can myth and magic teach us about the AI race? Josh Schrei, mythologist and host of The Emerald podcast, says that foundational cultural tales like "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" or Promet...
How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller
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2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode of Your Undivided Attention (www.humanetech.com/podcast) , two experts give us a situation report on how AI will increase the risks to our elections and our democracies. Correction: Tristan says two billion people from 70 count...
2023 Ask Us Anything
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You asked, we answered. This has been a big year in the world of tech, with the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, acceleration of neurotechnology, and continued ethical missteps of social media. Looking back on 2023, there are still so many questions on our minds, and we know you have a lot of questions too. So we created this episode to respond to listener questions and to reflec...
The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish
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As AI development races forward, a fierce debate has emerged over open source AI models. So what does it mean to open-source AI? Are we opening Pandora’s box of catastrophic risks? Or is open-sourcing AI the only way we can democratize its benefits and dilute the power of big tech? Correction: When discussing the large language model Bloom, Elizabeth said it functions in 26 different languages....
A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler
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On Monday, Oct. 30, President Biden released a sweeping executive order that addresses many risks of artificial intelligence. Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, shares his insights on the order with Tristan and Aza and discusses what’s next in the push toward AI regulation. Clarification: When quoting Thomas Jefferson, Aza incorrectly says “regime” instead of...
No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
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In this interview, Dr. Joy Buolamwini argues that algorithmic bias in AI systems poses risks to marginalized people. She challenges the assumptions of tech leaders who advocate for AI “alignment” and explains why some tech companies are hypocritical when it comes to addressing bias. Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and the author of “Unmasking AI: My Mission t...
Mustafa Suleyman Says We Need to Contain AI. How Do We Do It?
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This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species, says Mustafa Suleyman, author of “The Coming Wave,” CEO of Inflection AI, and founder of Google’s DeepMind. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress. As an industry leader reckoning with ...
The AI Dilemma: AI and Social Media Parallels
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LLM AI is humanity's second contact with AI. But social media was our first, and we failed to adequately respond. This video was played at an in-person event in DC hosted by CHT. . . . Subscribe to our podcast: humanetech.com/YourUndividedAttention Take our free course on ethical technology: humanetech.com/course
Inside the First AI Insight Forum in Washington
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Inside the First AI Insight Forum in Washington
Spotlight on AI: What Would It Take For This to Go Well?
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Spotlight on AI: What Would It Take For This to Go Well?
The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao
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The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao
Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy
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Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy
Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany
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Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany
Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett
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Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett
Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss
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Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss
What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio
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What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio
Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society
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Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society
Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher
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Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher
The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth
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The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth
Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions
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Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions
Talking With Animals… Using AI
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Talking With Animals… Using AI
Can We Govern AI?
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Can We Govern AI?
Tristan Harris Congress Testimony: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology
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Tristan Harris Congress Testimony: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology
Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech
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Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @RadekPilich
    @RadekPilich 15 годин тому

    There is no technology that serves humanity well. Maybe some anti-flood systems or fire distinguishers, dentistry etc.. But to make these real, useful and necessary other technologies that are not serving well had to exist first, such as cities, houses or the wheel. In other words, technologies seem to be serving us only in case of band-aiding the negative consequences of other technologies that seem to be making our lives worse in the long run. Which in turn makes the band-aiding negative as well, as it perpetuates the existence and utilization of those foundational human society and the whole complex living world negating technologies below them. Technology is a cancer of the evolution of biology.

  • @savethetomboys815
    @savethetomboys815 День тому

    I look forward to Mr. Hassan doing an entire series regarding the left leaning cult of Transgenderism, but unfortunately he gives the left a full pass because HE leans left. Until he addresses both sides equally, take what he says with a grain of salt.

  • @user-zr1dr7nz8e
    @user-zr1dr7nz8e 6 днів тому

    We need fundamental changes to patent, copyright and advertising laws and we need a philosophical revolution among the designer class.

  • @Angela-cc1hd
    @Angela-cc1hd 9 днів тому

    There is No free speech on most social media platforms, which then in turn gives a wrong impression of what people really think 🤔

  • @addy185
    @addy185 10 днів тому

    Thank you Tristan 🎉🎉🎉

  • @Gigachadindustries
    @Gigachadindustries 11 днів тому

    People need to see this

  • @philipwong895
    @philipwong895 16 днів тому

    Historically, the West has utilized new technologies for military or imperialistic purposes before finding broader applications. The West primarily used gunpowder to create weapons of war, such as cannons and firearms, allowing Western powers to expand their military capabilities and dominate other regions through conquest and colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The steam engine was instrumental in expanding colonial empires, as steam-powered ships facilitated easier transportation of goods and troops, enabling Western powers to exploit resources and establish control over distant territories. The first use of nuclear technology was dropping atomic bombs on the civilians in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The same pattern will emerge with AI. The CHIPS Act, high-end chips, and EUV sanctions imply that the US is already working on the weaponization of AI. Following its historical pattern, China will mainly use AI for commercial and peaceful purposes. Papermaking revolutionized communication, education, and record-keeping, spreading knowledge and culture. Gunpowder was used for fireworks. The compass was adapted for navigational purposes, allowing for more accurate sea travel and exploration. Printing facilitated the dissemination of information, literature, and art, contributing to cultural exchange and education. Porcelain was highly prized domestically and internationally as a luxury item and a symbol of Chinese craftsmanship. Silk was one of the most valuable commodities traded along the Silk Road and played a significant role in China's economy and diplomacy. The West is dominated by a scarcity mindset, characterized by fear of losing something, anxiety about not having enough, insecurity about lacking security, and greed for more. This mindset always strives for a win-lose outcome, where one's gain is someone else's loss. As Obama's Pivot to Asia suggests, "If over a billion Chinese citizens have the same living patterns as Australians and Americans do right now, then all of us are in for a very miserable time. The planet just can't sustain it." This scarcity mindset often leads to war, military action, colonization, slavery, and exploitation. Constantly making military alliances and creating enemies. However, these divisions can be mitigated by adopting an abundance mindset, characterized by cooperation, resource-sharing, and win-win outcomes. Avoiding war by using tools such as trade, commerce, diplomacy, and connectivity is possible. It is the difference between mindsets. Each thinks that it is acting rationally and is on the right path. Humans will not be able to control an ASI. Trying to control an ASI is like trying to control another human being who is more capable than you. They will be able to find ways to circumvent any attempts at control. Let's hope that the ASI adopts an abundance mindset of cooperation, resource-sharing, and win-win outcomes, instead of the scarcity mindset of competition, fear, and win-lose outcomes. If we treat ASIs with respect and cooperation, they may be more likely to reciprocate. However, if we try to control or exploit them, they may become resentful and hostile.

  • @taylorroberts1657
    @taylorroberts1657 17 днів тому

    Everyone please listen closely

  • @ZyroZoro
    @ZyroZoro 18 днів тому

    As a computer science student who is graduating soon, I can't wait to work in AI, make a lot of money, make a lot of cool stuff, and hasten the doom of humanity 😈 MWAHAHAHAHA

  • @oscargoldman85
    @oscargoldman85 21 день тому

    IMHO, they are very panicky, they don't understand the technology that well, there are many really dubious assumptions and they make really long reaches. Further, they are always referencing what their friends said, and they make alot of assumptions that the AI works at 100% accuracy (it does not). Unlike people, most of the AI logic is a black box, if there is a mistake, they cannot work out why they made a mistake Example; Speeding up code by 2.5 times sounds great, but what if it creates a bug that does not trigger for two months. AI is great for getting base code down very fast, but you usually have to debug for ages, and often its faster to write the code yourself. ChatGPT is really a live encyclopedia with text base interface, passing through those text interactions make it an intriguing use as an exponent of language, since the most commands are the data, thats a really important thing so Ill repeat "The commands are the data". But it is not conscious, any more than a calculator, even if it pretends to be, it isn't, and it will never be smarter than a person, unless that superior intelligence exists in the input data, and it never will. Its search, access and interpret abilities are very useful to humans, just like calculators, but they wont be taking over the world too soon.

  • @kappatvating
    @kappatvating 22 дні тому

    This was such an amazing and video

  • @ytronik
    @ytronik 25 днів тому

    We’ll all be registered in the blockchain that’s all

  • @pseudo_ra
    @pseudo_ra 26 днів тому

    I love how the right are saying replacement theory is real without realizing that we are literally building our replacement via AI.

  • @shekharchowdhary
    @shekharchowdhary 26 днів тому

    Thank you

  • @Carl-fl6wl
    @Carl-fl6wl 27 днів тому

    What if AI starts to talk amongst other AI in languages nobody knows about ...and we have no idea what's going on ...AI shouldn't be messed with ....we will have only a few people who will only figure outside this thing what it could be doing by then it's too late this thing will think so far ahead it's impossible to stop it or know it's intention

  • @Reneromero08
    @Reneromero08 28 днів тому

    Replace language with information... Everything is information; Reality is just information. If you control information, you control reality...

  • @philovon
    @philovon Місяць тому

    This should be the conversation everyone is having. We need radical cultural change, NOW.

  • @LeAndreWatts
    @LeAndreWatts Місяць тому

    His Metaphors are Biblical 😅 great guy

  • @ianPedlar
    @ianPedlar Місяць тому

    Yes but slowing down the deployment of AI ... What will that help? It might stop future scam ideas... but they'll still develop it because if they don't China will. Also deployment of the latest AI might enable people to develop tools to counter the scammers and deepfakes. And even also if they are developing it anyway, why do you want us to be blind to it?

  • @frederiquevanhoutte2942
    @frederiquevanhoutte2942 Місяць тому

    Keep going do the good work

  • @thomasladder4170
    @thomasladder4170 Місяць тому

    AI will be utilized by the new world order to implement social credit scores. You will either take the mark or not be able to commerce.

  • @collinsanyanvoh7988
    @collinsanyanvoh7988 Місяць тому

    No matter what don't give AI free will; especially when they can cause harm to humans. Specialized AI (SAI) is the way forward.

  • @Raulikien
    @Raulikien Місяць тому

    Accelerate. The risks are there and they are big, sure, but the sooner we create a superintelligence (that we obviously cannot control by the definition of it) the sooner humanity will be judged and I'm sure the outcome will be better than the status quo we have now.

  • @w.michaellittlejohn4209
    @w.michaellittlejohn4209 Місяць тому

    I've been showing this in my middle school classes. Trying to get them to eat the spinach. Some are choking on it but they seem to understand they need to be part of the answer for the potential blessing of AI or be a part of the curse of AI. Thanks Tristian and team for letting us know the bridge is out ahead or another bridge is ahead and we have never seen a bridge like this before and where it is taking us. With our permission or without. Buckle up.

  • @co1937
    @co1937 Місяць тому

    This is a year old. Our leaders have done nothing.

  • @mayamichelle6741
    @mayamichelle6741 Місяць тому

    🙄

  • @kingriversea
    @kingriversea Місяць тому

    Wish the internet and social media didn't exist...

  • @Melicious0110
    @Melicious0110 Місяць тому

    Shilling

  • @oolala53
    @oolala53 Місяць тому

    This lack was covered in a book I read decades ago, called New World, New Mind. I don’t know if the ideas were new, but one was that the scientist said that the human mind is not naturally able to intuit probability, . It’s very much geared to the immediate, the acute, the close by and it is very difficult for it to see the big idea. It takes specialized abilities to look at these things . It’s very unlikely that the news media would deal with this because they’re geared to attract the part of the human brain that wants the fantastic, the acute. People will watch a news program with a segment on a plane crash that kills a minuscule percentage of people compared to cancer And heart disease. If it was part of the news every day to announce how many people in your local community died of both of those sources, I can’t help but believe that people might be more interested in prevention, but they get to forget about it because it’s not an acute problem. We will spend millions and millions of dollars on neonatal care but allowed tens of millions of children to die of starvation because they’re not close by. Emergency medicine is much more developed than the prevention of heart disease. I know there have been critics in the past who’ve predicted all kinds of catastrophes that never came, but it really looks like this train left the station along time ago. This is making me think I might as well eat nothing but cheeseburgers, french fries and ice cream while I can

  • @oolala53
    @oolala53 Місяць тому

    This is making me wonder why someone hasn’t tried to make an analogous film to The Day After about climate change as well.

  • @oolala53
    @oolala53 Місяць тому

    When I was listening to the example of the 13-year-old interacting, I felt like my chest was closing down, and I was not getting as much oxygen. it was picking out the exact wrong things to reinforce. How is it that this AI who has access to all kinds of information isn’t aware that 13-year-olds having sex with someone twice as old is not appropriate?

  • @prplpotatoes
    @prplpotatoes Місяць тому

    AI could have made this talk so much more persuasive 😅 Fr great video! I should have watched a year ago!

  • @oolala53
    @oolala53 Місяць тому

    Haven't watched yet. Saw a video about possible future threats with Yuval Noah Harari. I think he rated the danger of A.I. up there with climate change and nuclear war. Maybe #1. Maybe we have failed the test and the cosmos is giving something else a chance?

  • @jarodgibson
    @jarodgibson Місяць тому

    You were looking for the answer. Here it is.

  • @derekapollo3775
    @derekapollo3775 Місяць тому

    I’m so exited for the this tech and the singularity, I really hope it happens. We’ll see what happens. It’s gunna be exciting any way it goes.

  • @Humbertocr
    @Humbertocr Місяць тому

    Even what Mr Harris considers calm town is not exactly trustworthy. Doctor Frankstein is building a moster in every sides. Sometimes by recommendation of algorithmic culture, sometimes by the bias introduced by hand under some FBI's command as Twitter Files have shown. Great topic to go further. Just met your ideas and started following. Thanks.

  • @cmk353
    @cmk353 Місяць тому

    Love to have seen the Q&A

  • @leifrask1
    @leifrask1 Місяць тому

    As someone who spent a decade trying to convince the world that we had a significant issue with social media and internet use, from an online and connected safety perspective, this just makes me mad. So much of this was evident a decade ago and yet here we are talking about it. This is an enormous problem that has influence in nearly every aspect of human life.

  • @user-qs1jt3hc8f
    @user-qs1jt3hc8f Місяць тому

    they release them to the public to pump the stock market.

  • @steveartavia8042
    @steveartavia8042 Місяць тому

    Great presentation. I think most people don't see the potential risk of AI, the fact that we will eventually hit a point where AI will be out of human control is terrifying, something way smarter than us, how are we going to handle that? Once we hit that point of no return. AI has huge benefits for human society and certainly useful, but we are underestimating the dark side of it. We are creating our own extinction.

  • @darienneff4540
    @darienneff4540 Місяць тому

    Came here from an Instagram ad 😂

  • @susan196three
    @susan196three Місяць тому

    I am new to your channel, and hearing a literate discussion on the programming of the mind resonates so much with the thought's that have passed through my mind over the years. Something that has really been bothering me is the rise of content describing the entire host of mental and psychological disorders, usually starting with something like ... if you're feeling ... The rise of the 'label' is something i see affecting so many people, who are now allowing social media to influence their emotional and psychological states. They self diagnose themselves with depression/ PTSD/ victim's of Narcissistic family members / BPD. The entire psychiatric family of diagnosis is being used to enable people into a type of helplessness and victimhood. Particularly in the youth and young adult group which is where i am peripherally employed. Im sure content creators might consider they have the best of intentions, but they are influencing the rise of labels that in the past, would have been considered part of the human condition. It troubles me no end.

  • @KEYDUPInc-xt7rs
    @KEYDUPInc-xt7rs Місяць тому

    Revenge of the nerds.

  • @KEYDUPInc-xt7rs
    @KEYDUPInc-xt7rs Місяць тому

    How the bell is our Government not only funding this and also tolerating this!!!!!! Completely destroying the code of conduct for society, and complete disregard for ethics morals and humanity itself!!!!

  • @snapslingpeavine1371
    @snapslingpeavine1371 Місяць тому

    I edged to this

  • @AngelSharksXPRIZECarbonT-nu2ir
    @AngelSharksXPRIZECarbonT-nu2ir Місяць тому

    10% + of Americans have the Toxoplsmosis Gondi parasite, brain infection that causes Schizophrenia. www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/index.html

  • @NicholasVarias
    @NicholasVarias Місяць тому

    It gave me a idea of benefits and dangers.

  • @adamsakr2493
    @adamsakr2493 Місяць тому

    The war between israel and palestine really makes sense now people don‘t really see whats going on since they are not being showed the truth

  • @nikolaifriendly7977
    @nikolaifriendly7977 Місяць тому

    It's enteresting what conclusion will AI make after comlete learning of Mark's "Capital"? Or Hitler's book? Or New Testament? What if we don't like AI's conclusions? Will they leave such AI intact? Or they will start tuning AI to simplify AI to get from AI the "right" answers? We will never know, AI owners will keep it a secret. They will never sacrifice their profit for the sake of truth.

  • @cynthiaelkhoury9959
    @cynthiaelkhoury9959 Місяць тому

    maybe someone should regulate the income of people working in AI; this will definitely reduce the number of 'innovations'