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

It's a nice layout.

And maybe if I said to my chat bot, hey, on topic X, can you give me a Wikipedia-like summary of this thing?

It could then go and access the...

Well, today it would have to just do some web search and kind of do its best.

But if there are better data annotations available, it could query those things, bring them into context and produce me my kind of customized thing.

And maybe it knows that I'm like, I'm quite good at kind of calculus, but I struggle with, you know, economics or something.

And so it can be like, oh, well, this topic, I'm going to explain a little bit more detail or something like that.

And yeah, so absolutely there's many ways you can imagine AI might be a big consumer of epistemic content in the future, but hopefully as a kind of intermediate to humans and helping them understand rather than just kind of, I don't know, milling around and doing their own AI things.

Okay, yeah, that's kind of difficult.

So let me first give an outline of one way of thinking about the map of human reasoning.

So one kind of concept I often go back to is the OODA loop, which you may be familiar with, the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

Something similar is kind of raised in all kinds of disciplines, but this is the kind of US military context thing.

And this is for, it's a decision-making cycle.

And you see this in reinforcement learning, you see this in cybernetics, you see this in business cycles as well.

As well as that kind of rapid decision-making cycle that we all have to do in kind of individual decision-making moments, we're also going through learning and growth.

So it's kind of UDLA, L for learning.

And I think that encompasses a lot of things.

So this is one way I kind of, I often use this lens to kind of break down, well, when I say reasoning, what does it actually mean?

I mean, all of these things.

And then humans, we're individuals, we're groups, we're societies.

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