This paraphrase from Tristan Harris (by way of Freedom Baird) came across the #AI in Ed discussion group and seems worth sharing: The advent of social media was our “first contact” with AI, and we didn’t anticipate the negative consequences in time. And now LLMs constitute our “second contact” and let’s not screw it up.
@scerruti@w8emv@edutooters Y'all ain't wrong, and I do find the history of AI fascinating, and this might be a good time to plug my video https://youtu.be/rrjwZwCxHdQ on that topic, but nevertheless I think Tristan Harris is onto something here. Could the rise of Big Social, driven by "the algorithm," be the first consequential encounter with AI for our society as a whole?