Aza Raskin
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521 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 27 Aug
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One in three US kids now reports that they're in some kind of relationship with a chat bot, and AIs have demonstrated that they are more persuasive than even the most persuasive humans.
We explored this with Dr.
Zack Stein earlier in the year.
Every single one of us is vulnerable to this.
We all have attachment systems.
We all get lonely.
We all have psychologies and AI can learn to exploit.
So in AI, what gets measured gets optimized.
And right now we're spending all of our time measuring how capable and powerful models are, and then narrowly optimizing for those metrics while we ignore all the downstream consequences.
Like what happens to our children in the race to intimacy.
So here's the big question.
What if we could flip this dynamic on its head?
What if instead of what AI can do?
We start to measure what AI does to us.
And obviously, this is a complex and emergent field, but
What if, instead of races to the bottom on capabilities and engagement?
We could incentivize races to the top on safety, or better yet, on making us more resilient and developed human beings.
So to do this, C D is launching a program we're calling Humane Valves.
And we're bringing together researchers and psychologists and engineers and technologists from across the entire AI ecosystem and beyond to build up the expertise and infrastructure we need to measure AI's impact on humans.
If this sounds like something you're interested in working on, and it it's something I am particularly passionate about, you can email us at evals.
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