Brendan Foody: belief

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…But that’s easy. You can tape me with my pendant. I run it through my AI, and I say, “Take out anything I don’t want Mercor to hear.” And it will do that quite well, maybe not perfectly. Then you get what’s left over: all the debates about elasticities and tax incidence. Maybe. I suspect you’re probably more comfortable with it than most people. [laughs] Most people would probably say, “Well, you’re asking the AI to be the layer of trust to remove the sensitive information, but it’s going to have a bias in doing so. ” I think there’s always going to be some level of sensitivity around these topics. I actually believe that some of the companies that have done a very good job around their brand of privacy are going to have an advantage in it. Apple — while maybe not totally at the frontier of AI yet — has done such a good job in their brand around privacy. That’s going to allow them to have a lot of trust from users in a way that they’re able to collect all of this personalized information. Let’s say three to five years out, when the top models will be both clearly better than virtually all human experts or maybe all human experts and recognized as such — the latter we certainly don’t have — what do you think, in that world, the reputation of expertise is like? One view is no one respects the experts because the machines are better, but I think an alternative possibility is the machine, by not being tied to a personality, is less disliked. People actually respect the experts more because they get this impersonal distillation of the experts. It’s like, “Oh, the experts did that. They’re so amazing. They’re not annoying me like on the late-night TV show.” What will happen to the status of human experts?…

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