Nilay Patel

I don't know that I have a lot of trust in public justice system.

What I know about those guys is that they get old and sometimes they go away.

I wish more of them would go away at higher rates, but sometimes they go away.

Sometimes they get replaced by newer, different people with different biases.

And the system replenishes at some rate that feels like accountability, right?

You can ruin that guy's reputation if you would just say his name.

And Bridget, I invite you to say his name out loud right here, if you would.

Nah, not important.

It was important enough for me to ask.

Anyway, that's a system that people understand about humans, right?

They have reputations.

They have histories.

They have experiences.

You can Google them.

And then sometimes they die, right?

And they just go away.

You get some new ones.

And at least the system replenishes and evolves.

An AI system running on a cloud service that you can't see on a data center that you might have hated being put in your community does not feel accountable to you in that way.

And maybe it's getting it right more often on whatever metric that someone who is not you has decided is important.