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Randy Fernando

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

What gets measured?

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

These kinds of things.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

Whose feedback guides iteration of the product?

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

What data is used for AI training?

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

What instructions did you give to the AI, to the model, in terms of how to behave?

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

Every choice that's made reflects trade-offs.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And it also reveals the true prioritization of the values behind what you might hear people say in public.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

Another example is with AI safety.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

You'll hear companies talk all the time about safety and how it's important to make sure we get it right.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

But when you look at the actual investment in the headcount in their actual companies, the safety investment is something like 5% of the overall headcount that they have.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So it really doesn't match the rhetoric and it shows again the values behind the trade-off that they made.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

So the gap between responsibility and power just grew massively.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And what we've done is we've built a global digital infrastructure that runs hospitals, elections, power grids, cybersecurity, financial systems, all of these things.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

But the companies that built the components don't bear the cost when those components fail.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And the companies that build tools capable of tearing down all those systems are

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

also have no mechanism to be held accountable.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And yes, it was actually great to see Project Glasswing and see Anthropic withholding mythos and saying, look, what we need to do here is emphasize defense before offense.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And this is one of the principles that helps us when we're trying to get out of these situations.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

You say, look, let's put more effort, put our best minds, our best technology on defense, figure that out, and then we'll democratize access more over time.

Your Undivided Attention
What Do We Mean by Human Tech?

And this is really important because every AI company is always in a race.