The Gradient: Perspectives on AI C. Thi Nguyen: Values, Legibility, and Gamification
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Jun 13, 2024 C. Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, discusses losing control of values, tradeoffs of legibility and simplification, risks of gamification, and the influence of technology on rationality and agency. Topics include political value choices in ML, heuristics in decision-making, epistemic arms races, and the impact of classification systems on data perception.
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State Legibility and Value Capture
- States simplify the world into legible metrics for easier control and processing.
- This legibility bias leads to value capture as institutions shape what we care about to fit measurable proxies.
Understanding Value Capture
- Value capture means substituting rich personal values with simplified institutional metrics.
- This shift is common in fields like academia, education, and corporate management, distorting original goals.
Limits of Well-being Metrics
- Metrics fail at capturing well-being because their meaning shifts with context and individual values.
- There is no single objective metric as terms like health vary per personal interest and situation.