The problem is not so much that we are increasingly relying on algorithms to be our interface with an increasingly information-intensive world. With the rise of the Internet and AI, his trend is inevitable. The issue is control.
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AI will be our interface to the world -- a world made of digital information. This can equally lead to empowering individuals and communities to gain greater control over their lives, or to a total loss of agency. And regrettably, we're currently engaged on the wrong road
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As a side note, this is why products like Google search, Gmail, iOS, Android are beneficial while the Facebook newsfeed is destructive. The former are active, they empower users to do more, to know more. The latter manipulates your worldview and seeks to maximally waste your time
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As an industry, we need to develop product categories and markets where the incentives are aligned with placing the user in charge of the AI, instead of using AI to exploit the user's mind for profit or political gain. We need to strive towards products that are the anti-Facebook
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you should debate
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There would be no debate, I agree at 100%. I started designing such algorithms that give more control to the user 7 years ago at
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Pretty sure YouTube recommendation engine was leading people down echo chamber rabbit holes as well.
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Bullcrap - the alt-right regularly hijacks Google search autocomplete to prioritize Nazi, racist, conspiracy content. Autocomplete creates info bubbles - not empowering. & then how do you explain YouTube's wacko suggestions? Thread started good & got self-serving.
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I agree Google is not as bad as FB, but Google still sells our personal data to advertisers and advertising is inherently manipulative.
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it was Android that let Facebook have this datahttps://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976369669874491392 …
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The fact that you've convinced yourself that Facebook is inherently "destructive" but your employer's products that are equally harmful are "beneficial" says a lot more about you than anything else.
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Have you even talked to former YouTube employees about your own company's obsession with wasting time and increasing engagement at the cost of truth and worldview?
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