John Oliver
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Yeah, you don't know that that study's been updated.
That's not true anymore.
It's very difficult.
So I think that kind of information literacy is something I think people are going to have to get better understanding.
It may be that...
this generation of kids are going to be better, I hope, are going to be better at seeing through the garbage than older people are now.
I mean, we'll see.
We'll see.
It imminently seems like it's making things significantly worse, but I hope that long-term there are ways to fix that.
But yeah, again, the kind of unearned confidence of these billionaire AI cowboys is not inspiring.
Oh God, yeah.
decisions on a series of best case scenarios yeah that's that feels like fatally problematic i think there was a story about kamal nanjani when he was doing that show silicon valley yeah go up to silicon valley and walk around and like into these companies these startup companies and he would ask them kind of yeah what though if uh how could this be used for fascism justice
just in general and he would like see them go oh yeah we don't really think about that here like oh you don't that's interesting feels like something you might want to think about how could your product be used to hurt people that might be part of the decision process you want to fold in to all of this there's a there's a book i read about have you read um the book uh careless people i think it is it's a a book written by um this woman from new zealand who basically started working at facebook as a
That is the most obvious example.
Bring the world together.
Let's share information.
We have nothing to do with that.
What's happening in Myanmar?
Oh, that can't be anything to do with us.
Oh, it's very much to do with you.