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Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

CHAPTER

The Metaphysical Guardrails of AI

AI must be built in such a way that it will always need to be learning about you and never think it has you figured out. Which means that it should never think it can actually predict your behavior, which is what it is. So this is what gets complicated. That's what the text-oriented thing is doing. It's predicting the last thing. And so there's a whole bunch of reality that cannot be predicted in principle, including you. Unless you're made into a machine. Right. But even then, so it's just interesting to think, yeah, yeah, there's metaphysical issues here, which are kind of deep.

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