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

which gets manifested into a relatively small number of people who promise, or perhaps implicitly, or perhaps they don't, but perhaps they promise that they will lay down these emergency powers when it's necessary.

And then of course they never do because the power has been centralized in there.

And at that point, there's a kind of moral hazard.

So even if they were well-meaning to begin with.

And this is very blue sky and sort of one of the loosest thoughts I have, but

I think to myself, well, we have a bunch of new tech.

Is there a way that we can apply that to getting at least a bit more of the agility with a bit less of the fearsome parts of centralization of power?

I don't know what that looks like.

So all the things I've described to you to this point, I have like a moderately concrete vision in my head of at least one kind of instantiation of that.

For this, I kind of don't, but I just have a sense that it's maybe possible.

It's a little bit utopian.

So you asked me my vision for, like, what does AR for human reasoning really enable, you know, some years down the line, if it goes really well?

I think in one sentence, perhaps, and now I'm probably going to accidentally insert a full stop as I speak, but anyway, let's say in one sentence, it might look something like, a society where it feels like the decisions being made about the...

important things at the large scale and important things at the local and more small scales are being made with more deliberateness and wisdom and with more alignment and adherence to the people involved and their interests and their needs.

I think this is what we want from human reasoning and what we believe is in principle possible.

And it's what we look around us and we see is often not the case.

We see that instead the world is

Sort of confusing, it's not clear that anyone really is deciding much of what happens.

We wouldn't want it to be the case that individuals or oligarchs were deciding all of what happened, but we would want for

affected people for their interests and principles and values to be reflected in what ends up actually happening.

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