Dr. Lolly Mancey

What about digital sovereignty for each of us?

What about if we control that narrative?

Because haven't we learned from social media?

And we should have.

So I think we're at the very baby steps of leaning into this, but you're right.

When we made FutureVille for RTE and we asked people, where is AI?

They just said, maybe my phone.

But actually in Dublin, it's in every lamppost.

You know, it's in all the places that we work.

And then I have students in sustainability for my role in UCD who say I refuse to engage with it.

And I'm like, well, then don't have a phone because you're already embedded with it in some ways.

So it's kind of unrolling at the moment.

What we have to realize is that there is this meh mentality that we do so well in Ireland of, oh, nothing will ever change and I can't do anything.

We really have changed many, many things over the last couple of decades.

So we can lean into that a bit harder.

Yeah, because if you're giving your vulnerable self, your soul data, as I call it, the idea of sort of here I am and I'm struggling with something and I'm going to get advice from you, that advice is from a prediction model.

That's what a language model is.

It's predicting the best advice to give you from the suede of everything that it could find.

love you it doesn't care about you it doesn't support you it's not going to give you a hug and it certainly doesn't have your best interests at heart it's literally designed to keep you sort of ego boosted to start with that's why all of us are walking around going god my ideas are amazing when i put them into chat gpt which is not good for us by the way as well psychologically

but also it's mirroring ourselves back to ourselves in a way that's palatable for us.