{"id":101662,"date":"2020-01-31T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:04:30","slug":"artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That\u2019s a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s \u201cnext video\u201d is a profit-maximizing recommendation system, an A.I. selecting increasingly \u2018engaging\u2019 videos. And that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComputer scientists and users began noticing that YouTube\u2019s algorithm seemed to achieve its goal by recommending increasingly extreme and conspiratorial content. One researcher reported that after she viewed footage of Donald Trump campaign rallies, YouTube next offered her videos featuring \u201cwhite supremacist rants, Holocaust denials and other disturbing content.\u201d The algorithm\u2019s upping-the-ante approach went beyond politics, she said: \u201cVideos about vegetarianism led to videos about veganism. Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.\u201d As a result, research suggests, YouTube\u2019s algorithm has been helping to polarize and radicalize people and spread misinformation, just to keep us watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube\u2019s \u201cnext video\u201d is a profit-maximizing recommendation system, an A.I. selecting increasingly \u2018engaging\u2019 videos. And that\u2019s the problem. \u201cComputer scientists and users began noticing that YouTube\u2019s algorithm seemed to achieve its goal by recommending increasingly extreme and conspiratorial content. One researcher reported that after she viewed footage of Donald Trump campaign rallies, YouTube next offered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}