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#364 - Stuart Russell - The Terrifying Problem Of AI Control
Modern Wisdom
Recommendation Algorithms - Are They Really Manipulating People?
How do the recommendation arguments work and what effect they have on people? And if we find that they really are manipulating people, right, that they're that sort of a consistent drift. Ah, then that's really a problem we have to think about different agrythms. Inai we often distinguish between reinforcement learning argrthms which ar trying to maximize a long term sum of reward. So in this case, the long term rate of clicks on the content stream is what the algrithms trying to maximise. Those kinds of algrytms will manipulate, because the action that they can take is to choose a particular piece of content to send you. The state
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