The bigger picture is that we are conducting an experiment with disinformation that may have unintended and severe consequences, but that's nothing new. After all, hundreds of years of it based on those bibles have led us to unscientific belief systems about so many existential things like climate change, human origins and evolution, etc. It was disinformation that got us here but what will get us out?
Maybe only a vast upgrade in popular education that the internet and AI can bring us? Certainly that has begun but many things could stop it or force it to veer off course into something destructive in the end. The Newsom veto of the California AI bill has staved off regulatory overreach and capture there for now, but for how long?
The Biden EO on AI was only a small start. Congress is hopelessly lost on the topic of disinformation and what to do about it. The most important election in our recent history may be determined by it.
Good comments! I would like to see a start made by teaching all the schoolkids about "Skeptical Learning", so they don't fall as easily into traps of broken concepts...
I take back my previous....
THIS one is your best ever, Barry!!
Thank you for sharing so many possibilities for all of us to think about and DO!
That's very kind Peter! Thank you for reading and reacting!
The bigger picture is that we are conducting an experiment with disinformation that may have unintended and severe consequences, but that's nothing new. After all, hundreds of years of it based on those bibles have led us to unscientific belief systems about so many existential things like climate change, human origins and evolution, etc. It was disinformation that got us here but what will get us out?
Maybe only a vast upgrade in popular education that the internet and AI can bring us? Certainly that has begun but many things could stop it or force it to veer off course into something destructive in the end. The Newsom veto of the California AI bill has staved off regulatory overreach and capture there for now, but for how long?
The Biden EO on AI was only a small start. Congress is hopelessly lost on the topic of disinformation and what to do about it. The most important election in our recent history may be determined by it.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/
Good comments! I would like to see a start made by teaching all the schoolkids about "Skeptical Learning", so they don't fall as easily into traps of broken concepts...
Thanks Barry this is an excellent article and oh so true my vote is in and am awaiting for the final results in 24 days
Great! It's hard to hold on, isn't it? After this, tho, no more threats from Trump...