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Gus

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Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

So say if a government published a tool for online sensemaking, a lot of people would be sort of skeptical of using that to develop their views.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

yeah yeah wikipedia is an interesting example it is sort of the the crowning achievement of human knowledge creation but it's also so on the one hand anyone can participate on the other hand it's wikipedia as it exists is quite elitist in a sense if there's there's a hierarchy and people

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

You know, you need to be a trusted contributor in order to for your contributions to actually count.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And as you mentioned, there's a very few people contribute almost all of the content.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Is that how you see sort of is that the default state of human sensemaking that that you have this elite and it's not actually

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

It's not actually everyone participating.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

It's actually almost no one participating.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Everyone being a consumer of information rather than a producer of information.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Yeah.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And much of this will probably be written by AI.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Will it also be read by AI?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

So will it also be ingested by my agent that's then presenting it to me in a way that's easier for me to understand or perhaps easier for me to digest quickly?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Can you paint us a picture of sort of the perfect state or the ideal vision for AI for human reasoning?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

What does the future look like in say 10 years if this project really takes off?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

But it might just become much cheaper to negotiate using AI.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Right.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Yeah.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

It's just much cheaper to send a bunch of messages back and forth.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

And maybe my agent can take my preferences, negotiate on my behalf, and there can be a whole workflow there that I'm not involved in.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

It would be too costly for me to negotiate directly.