Robert Sparrow

They don't care about the truth at all, which is why putting them at the heart of the modern university is such a terrible idea.

I mean, the reason why they output BS is because they're not creatures in the world.

They're not connected to the world.

They're not sentient.

They don't care about anything.

They can't care about the truth.

I mean, people design AI to do different things, but they're all designed to generate a reaction in the user.

They're all trained.

They might be designed, as you say, to make money, sell advertisements, maintain user engagement, but fundamentally, they want you to respond to them in a certain way, and that's what they care about.

They don't really care about that either, but that's

But the designers are the designers.

Yeah, that's what the designers have designed them to do.

So sometimes they are designed to give us information that is accurate.

And so people have been trained to give them a little thumbs up, reward them when they say true things.

But it's the reward that they're oriented towards, not the truth.

So I do think this is very important in the educational system.

I think universities are institutions that are fundamentally oriented towards the production of knowledge.

I mean, also hopefully produce other benefits for the community, but universities need to care about the truth and the people teaching and researching in universities need to care about the truth.

And so you can't replace them with machines that don't

care about the truth.