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This scenario planning thing is sort of close to my heart because

Certainly, I would have been a customer about a year ago or a bit longer now when I was working at the AI Safety Institute in the UK.

I was just such a kind of person who would have absolutely loved to have this support if it was well made into a quality tool.

And so I have several friends who are still, you know, still working in that context.

And there are people working in similar contexts in other countries.

Yeah.

So and this really is like elevating, augmenting decision making.

And this is another kind of broad umbrella of human reasoning that we think is really important.

Yeah, so this is really thorny and we do give some thought to this.

And one way you can look at it is,

realistically perhaps we should expect in the medium to long term automation will just win out eventually in all you know in most cases because it's always going to be more efficient to have you know the tireless um doesn't get sick you know ai systems that can just kind of run 24 7 and and furthermore they can think thousand times faster and and perhaps even you know they can think better i think this is definitely on the table as well um

But that, of course, comes with all kinds of costs because once you've taken... I'm not saying anything new here.

Once you've taken humans out of the loop, the trust is maybe harder to get.

And then also maybe you might think over time you might lose the ability to...

kind of oversee and understand what's being done.

So keeping humans in the loop is one phrase.

I actually really like a phrase that Audrey Tang sort of has publicized a little bit, which is, why can't we have machines in the human loop?

And that is kind of one of the kind of, it's a sort of aesthetic we're going for here, which is there are innumerable ways we can imagine.

We already have tools which are part of our

individual systems that augment us, part of our collective systems which augment us.