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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Future of Censorship

I'm curious to your views on AI censorship because as you pointed out in a 1984 world, it's extremely hard to censor things. In an AI monitor world where all the different social media sites could be monitored by the government simultaneously and if a company is captured by whatever government that it's under maybe the government can put controls in the end. We are very far from AIs that can do the subtle complex censorship but you know, it will come and it will get better - people are already trying to do it even with the ones that will censor. This is a big threat and one of the biggest threats is that it removes one of the most important permeabilities of past censorship organizations which is

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