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Steven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality

Steven Pinker on Revolutions, Rogue AI, and the Struggle for Reality

Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell vor 2 Monaten

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Dr. Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist at Harvard, a 2x
Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of notable works like The
Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature,
and Enlightenment Now.

Today we discuss his research on the psychology of common
knowledge and what it means for democracy in a time of infinite
AI slop and social media confusion.

We also dive into deeper philosophical questions on AI
consciousness and rogue AI — note that this was recorded before
the recent Hugging Face incident, making our commentary
especially urgent.

His excellent most recent book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone
Knows… inspired me to write The Noisy Room — an interactive essay
that explains how we might fix the common-knowledge trap sprung
by social media.

Programming note: We’ve been off working hard on a great
new season of content. I want to offer enormous gratitude to our
subscribers for their steady support. Thank you.

A small ask:

The irony is not lost on me in trying to critique the algorithms
while still being dependent upon them to reach the right
audience.

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