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Joe Edelman: Meaning-Aligned AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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What Are Your Primary Interests Right Now?

Tristan Harris: My interests started when I worked at Couchsurfing. He says he was trying to figure out what the difference between meaningful interactions and engagement, like philosophically or sociologically. After that, he got much more interested in how our whole society is kind of built around revealed preferences - not just virality.Harris: Can we make a very principled statement of what's wrong with so that we can still trust the user? We should be able to build a recommender system that helps people with what's really meaningful to them rather than keeping them in an engagement loop.

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