Jaron Lanier on parallels between AI and social media

I really recommend the book “You are not a Gadget,”. It’s old but it doesn’t seem old because it was so prescient.

People have moved on to worry about AI. So many of the dangers of AI come from the insecurities created by tech. Vulnerable software in IoT. Data scooped up everywhere and centralized. No privacy. Human interactions intermediated by machine.

If we could just start to address some of those issues I would have more faith that we will ever really do anything to regulate AI.

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andsoitis 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Does Jaron not consider YouTube social media?

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tartoran 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, and? What's the point you're trying to make? Social media does capture the bulk of attention and it's okay to use it to criticise social media practices themselves. What's wrong with that?

	▲	andsoitis 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As Microsoft’s Prime Unifying Scientist in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (which one has to presume includes AI) and then feeding social media, is an interesting way to try change the status quo.

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criddell 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m sure he does.