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Randy Fernando

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

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Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And it's the rules that we place around competition to say, hey, don't do that too fast because then you might damage something.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

okay, when we make new inventions, where is most of our energy concentrated?

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

It's on the extraction side.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And this is why these things get completely out of whack.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And a good example is actually car safety.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

When cars began, the companies that were making cars were not that excited about spending energy on safety, spending resources and time on doing that.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

But what happens is you're able to eventually build common ground, build public pressure and say, look, traffic deaths aren't acceptable.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And there was this cultural shift.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And then you combine that with getting the power players at the table.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So the automakers, the insurers, the regulators, etc.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

you create incentives and penalties.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So you say, when you do the right thing, you get rewarded.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

When you do the wrong thing, you get penalized.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And then you figure out things like DMVs and traffic codes, and you update those as the tech changes.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So this is kind of inspiration for what we need to do.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

A harder version of this, but it's something like this for AI.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So this is the principle most directly tied to what people are already feeling.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And when you wonder why is there such a strong anti-AI current building out there right now, students are booing AI at commencement speeches.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

Communities are organizing against data centers.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

That is simply not true.