The Three Rules of AI

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As we're entering the double exponential, more and more of the human experience will essentially be open to being eaten. The faster that technology is invented and gain new powers, the faster that new classes of responsibility are uncovered. We often will not yet have law or language or philosophy to describe those responsibilities. So as a technologist, it is part of your responsibility to start looking around for what that new class of thing needs to be protected with AI.

In our previous episode, we shared a presentation Tristan and Aza recently delivered to a group of influential technologists about the race happening in AI. In that talk, they introduced the Three Rules of Humane Technology. In this Spotlight episode, we’re taking a moment to explore these three rules more deeply in order to clarify what it means to be a responsible technologist in the age of AI.

Correction: Aza mentions infinite scroll being in the pockets of 5 billion people, implying that there are 5 billion smartphone users worldwide. The number of smartphone users worldwide is actually 6.8 billion now.

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