this is amazing!

The machine intelligences that we are teaching to think about their thinking, might ultimately push us to become more transparent about our own reasoning, more accountable. I continue to argue that studying AI, our fears, critiques & so on, reveals more about ourselves than we give credit.

Early data from our research over at The Collective Intelligence Project suggests people trust their AI chatbots more than their elected representatives: We are altering the social fabric of human trust in real-time & barely understanding the implications.

This trust paradox might actually point toward solutions. What if the metacognitive standards we're building for AI became templates for more accountable human decision-making and institutional courage?

In a perverse manner we demand more transparency from AI than from human institutions, or even from other humans. We insist AI explain its reasoning in healthcare/justice, while accepting that judges, doctors or systems rarely articulate their biases or degrees of uncertainty.

Meanwhile, we are susceptible to making a fundamental category error. When we confide in our LLMs we might think we're building a relationship with the AI - but we're actually interacting with corporate systems and their incentives.

woof what is this from?