We Need to Control AI Agents Now
Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences.
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Social media has become too important to entrust to anyone. Are there ways to entrust it to everyone?
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Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
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The complexity and arbitrariness of non-fungible tokens are a big part of their appeal.
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Every plausible configuration of social media in 2020 is unpalatable.
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As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.
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No one, including the social-media giant itself, trusts the company to decide which ads are false. But somebody has to render judgment.
Ina Fassbender / Reuters The Age of Misinformation
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft must recognize a special responsibility for the parts of their services that host or inform public discourse.
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Doctors and lawyers are prohibited from using clients’ information for their own interests, so why aren’t Google and Facebook?
