How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell

What do you do when you know that the environment is going to change but you want to have other members of your species that are reasonably well aligned? Caregiving is one of the things that we do to make that happen. Every time we raise a new generation of children, we’re faced with this difficulty of

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A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.

The political scientist Henry Farrell has argued that we’ve had artificial intelligences before in the form of markets and states. A market is just a big information-processing, decision-making device. So, in a funny way, anytime I see that something costs $4.99 and I pay it, I’m giving up a kind of autonomy to the force of the market, right? I’m n... See more