Max Tegmark

You trust scientists like Einstein who said something everybody thought was bullshit and turned out to be right.

You get a lot of trust points, and he did it multiple times even.

I think AI has the power to really heal a lot of the rifts we're seeing by creating trust systems.

get away from this idea today with some fact-checking sites, which might themselves have an agenda and you just trust it because of its reputation.

You want to have it so these sort of systems, they earn their trust and they're completely transparent.

This I think would actually help a lot.

That can, I think, help heal the very dysfunctional conversation that humanity has about how it's going to deal with all its biggest challenges in the world today.

And then on the technical side, another common sort of gloom comment I get from people who are saying, we're just screwed.

There's no hope.

is, well, things like GPT-4 are way too complicated for a human to ever understand and prove that they can be trustworthy.

They're forgetting that AI can help us prove that things work, right?

And there's this very fundamental fact that in math, it's much harder to come up with a proof than it is to verify that the proof is correct.

You can actually write a little proof checking code.

It's quite short.

that you can as human understand.

And then it can check the most monstrously long proof ever generated even by a computer and say, yeah, this is valid.

So right now we have this approach with virus checking software that it looks to see if there's something you should not trust it.

And if it can prove to itself that you should not trust that code, it warns you, right?

Yeah.

What if you flip this around?