Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Describe your work in that part of the world.

What progress have you made?

What progress do you think needs to be made to that system?

Do you think that the best place to improve things is just that subjective probability that you'll get caught using technology especially?

Is that where we should invest the outsized amount of our time and attention?

Because it seems all it takes is one case of some guy's probability is low, so you let him go and he commits another really bad violent crime or something and everyone freaks out and says, shut this down.

It's like nuclear.

Three mile island happens and then you get no nuclear forever.

Does that mean that we should focus our attention on making people more scared that they'll get caught?

as the number one lever in this system.

I think so.

What about education as something upstream of crime?

Have you observed or discovered in your work useful or interesting relationship between those two things?

And how do you think about the system of education as well?

What makes you most hopeful in that area?

I had Joe Liman on the show talking about Alpha School last year.

That seems young, but extremely promising in some of the early results.

I always try to catch myself to be not too overly optimistic about technology solving all of our problems, but it sure does seem like AI could solve a lot of the problems in education, maybe.

I'm curious what you think.

Is that like the solar thing where the AI system is the equivalent of the solar panel?