AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late
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Published in NOEMA by Nathan Gardels
Writing in Noema, Macario Schettino has pointed out that “each previous communication-driven disruption” — the printing press, mass newspapers, TV and radio — “was eventually tamed by the same technology that caused it.” So too will that be the case with social media linked to AI.
Even though we live in accelerated times, transmuting the obstacle into the way won’t happen overnight.
“The Reformation required 131 years to settle into the Peace of Westphalia. The Enlightenment needed longer,” Schettino reminds us. “The mass media transition produced two world wars and a Cold War before the postwar order stabilized. The social media transition is still very young.”
As in previous cycles, the experience of turmoil is the impetus for turning the technology into a platform for forging a governing consensus that transcends divisions.
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