Is There a Smart, Artificial Intelligence, Augritem, Thing That Knows What Misinformation Looks Like?

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There are people who feel like a lot of the content that gets flagged as misinformation seems to be amenable to my attitudes and values. I'm sure there's much more complex systems, but there's efinitly an entire large content moderation at hestat look at thesewo and what's your response to them. There is no greater variance in their response compared to actual real, you know, the grained, a moderator. And i'm pretty sure brand and pennycook actually have a nice study on this where they use lay people as content moderators,.

In this episode we sit down with expert in behavioral economics Evelyn Gosnell, who is also the managing director of Irrational Labs, an organization that uses social science to help other organizations make big decisions, fight misinformation, and design better products and services.

In a new information ecosystems where our primate brains, which evolved to spread gossip and argue and debate and deliberate and play status games and manage our reputations among trusted peers and signal our attitudes about what we perceive as "us" versus what we perceive as "them," several organizations are helping the places where we gather to do these things create better environments in which to do them.

Evelyn Gosnell is the managing director of one of those organizations, Irrational Labs, and on this show – a podcast about the science of judgment, decision making, bias, and reasoning – she will give us a behind-the-scenes look at how they use the latest research, and conduct their own research, to improve the world.

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