Emily and Alex discuss Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund, its essay contest, and the problems with using AI for prediction and resource allocation--mere days before the collapse of FTX. Also, we introduce our "What in the Fresh AI Hell?" segment!

This episode was recorded on November 9, 2022. 

Watch the video of this episode on PeerTube.

References:

Super Forecasting And AI

Bill Howe - Applied AI in High-Expertise Settings or Curation as Programming

Samir Passi and Solon Barocos - "Problem Formulation in Fairness"

Vinod Prabharakan, William Isaac, Donald Martin Jr - Participatory Problem Formation for Fairer Machine Learning

David Ribes, Andrew S Hoffman, Steven C Slota and Geoffrey C Bowker -
The Logic of Domains

Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Lee Vinsel on Criti-hype - Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.