Joe Weisenthal

How to judge performance seems absolutely a key question.

You know, AI seems like a weird thing as a technology because.

All right.

On the one hand, you could say, like, all right, we want to massively improve our health care system.

We want to massively improve health care outcomes.

And I think you could, like, very easily say, well, AI is going to be a really big part of that, right?

And maybe make things a lot more efficient, maybe give information access to a lot of people, identify experts, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, totally.

It's so great.

So maybe the mission has something to do with health and AI plays an important component of it.

I guess what's strange, though, is that AI itself creates its own potential pitfalls.

I mean, the industry, as you mentioned, is obsessed with the pitfalls of its own making, right?

Yeah.

And so there is almost no way that AI can just be a tool in service of some other mission.

Because almost everyone who knows something about AI sees potential for extreme exacerbation of inequality, potentially AI robots that will be misaligned and want to kill us all when they have sufficient capabilities.

Yeah, right.

And so like, on the one hand, like, yes, as a technology, it might fit into some of these other big missions.

But on the other hand, it sort of feels like it has to there has to be some like, AI specific goal of like, where do we want this technology to go?

Or how do we how do we curb it or whatever it is, that seems very distinct.

And I don't think it is marketing, or just marketing, because A, there's already this very big tech backlash, right?