Oly Sourbut

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Future of Life Institute Podcast · How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut) · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

I think, you know, the naive way is just like, ah, well, you know, a nice friendly company created this nice friendly AI.

So you trust it.

I think this is not worth nothing, but it's, there are very, there's so many other ways we can kind of build layers of trust and we should be doing that.

And I think a lot of those other ways are neglected and I've kind of named a few of those.

There's been a really interesting trajectory on the internet where my understanding is that the early internet was a lot more...

the power law was much less sharp with regards to who was a contributor and who was a consumer.

Nowadays, a lot of people just, like, they scroll the TikTok, they scroll the Twitter, and they're basically consuming and occasionally messaging people or something like that.

It is interesting.

And, yeah, Wikipedia has this pretty sharp power law of contribution.

And all these things have.

Stack Overflow, I'm sure, is similar.

I think there's some inevitability to that and perhaps even some desirability to that.

Because naively at least, we don't necessarily want more democracy in all contexts, right?

Because I don't want to be responsible for contributing to a topic I have no understanding of.

Why would I want to do that?

And what I want to know is that the people who do understand it are honestly putting forth their best effort at contributing to that.

And that's a hard problem because, of course, then there's a kind of principal-agent separation.

I, the principal who wants to understand something that I don't currently understand, I'm trusting the agent, the current expert, to honestly put forth their description of that thing.

And this just is a tricky problem.

And often we balance, often sort of checks and balances like situations and scrutiny and auditability and so on.

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