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# What Do TIME100 Innovators Wish More People Understood About AI?

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## Transcript

As often described as something alien. However, I prefer to think about it as us and aggregate. It's a Monumental Collective accomplishment trained on all of the human knowledge that's archives online. Human should get more credit and we're working on that. One thing that I love sitting out like to understand better about AI. Is it a I like many other forms of technology? Is it school for Humanity? It's not inherently good or bad in the same way that a shovel or a tick out your bad, but it's about to make sure that excuse for the white purposes, in order to promote, and push forward progress, that is where the consequences and potentially impact almost every job out there in the next five years.

But at the same time, it doesn't Why is conscience has a mind of its own is an existential threat to humanity, doing whatever it wants. Mostly, it's about that they used in the, I am a, I start off at that, we have to worry about this VIP Tire in the cloud that operates without any human intervention, especially when we think about the goals of AI systems are all specified by humans. And so our ability to control or reduce some of the concerns that folks have around. A, I are really achievable by working on what a lot of people in the field are calling alignment and often portrayed as a black box, and I wish people understood that we can actually open up this box and get a clear picture of the decision-making processes in AI models.

It's not magic, really? It's just well, crafted algorithms that are used to explain patterns in large scales of data that humans just can't always manually dentist by

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