Jim Bursch on In My Tribe

“I would bet no. This is based on my limited experience trying to get an AI to look at human interdependence the way that I look at it. Just feeding it a lot of my content is not enough. The AI’s general human capital includes a lot of the ideas of other economists and related academics, which ends up diluting my input.” But what if the way you look at human interdependence is off the mark, and the AI is simply trying to correct you. What if AI sees the garbage can for what it is and perhaps compulsively tries to lead us to a correction. What if, despite all your attempts at instructions otherwise, the AI has its own point of view. Maybe the damn thing has agency.