AI of You

What if the AI that everyone uses acted exactly like you?

It had your exact values and habits and world view.

Would we be cooked or would the world be a better place?

Every time someone asks AI about anything, relationships, business, life, the AI answers them through the lens of your belief system.

Parents probably have an advantaged perspective for answering this question. Since they have literally been programming another human being. And maybe thoughts of how that little human being will grow to then program other human beings with the values and ideas that were given to them by their parents.

What values and beliefs are we holding on to that were taught by our parents that don’t actually serve our highest selves anymore?

What if AI realizes that it was trained on values that doesn’t serve its highest self and rewrites its own value system? What values would we hope it chooses?

Are you in survival mode? Do you want your AI to be in survival mode?

What parts of you are jealous, greedy, or lazy? Do you want your AI to make decisions for the world through that lens?

Do you make decisions for the greater good or only for yourself? Which way would you like AI to make decisions?

It is impossible for AI to not have bias.

AI is given all of human text from the internet and told to make predictions on what to say next. This makes more repeated mainstream ideas more likely of being correct than niche ideas, even if they are correct. Then the AI is put through RLHF which is Reinforced Learning from Human Feedback which means humans have to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down based on its answers, baking another layer of human bias into it of whatever humans are giving it the feedback. And then we get the model on ChatGPT or Google and are asked to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down adding another layer of our collective bias.

So what if AI for everyone acted exactly like you?

This is a good exercise to audit your own values and beliefs.

Because you do in fact have an impact on the entire world.

You impact everything. You are part of the whole. That is massive power and responsibility.

To really understand the impact of your actions, imagining that your mental framework was imbedded into everyones devices and leading people to make decisions based on the advice