Networked humans today have a far higher information intake than the average person a few generations ago, and worry about far more things -- by several orders of magnitude. And almost none of that is actionable nor even relevant
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A crucial application of cognition automation (i.e. AI), today and in decades to come, will be the filtering and distillation of the information we consume. AI will be our interface to an increasingly information-intensive world
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This presents a key safety challenge: since our information consumption eventually defines what we believe and who we are, by externalizing its management, we are and will be giving algorithms immense control over ourselves, both individually and collectively
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Our challenge is thus to design information filtering and distillation technology that allow us to retain our agency, that empower us with greater control over our lives rather than manipulating us. More like Wikipedia and Google Search, and less like Facebook.
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Completely agree with you. But then again, part of me still wonders when the hell we were in control over ourselves in that sense? When we were hunters-gatherers?
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Aren’t “the algorithms” at this point a kind of shaded mapping of input states to output states informed by behaviors of others? So there’s the “shading” aspect and the “others” aspect that offer opportunities of concern.
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Algorithms will have immense control, however, *giving* is not quite what is happening. We didn't have any effective control over this before, so perhaps *algorithms will be gaining* is more correct. This is key as it expands the set of decisions that are possible.
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