How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion (37 minute read)

LLMs are a kind of anti-social media. While social media has been cratizing, epistemically diverging, engagement-optimized, and performative, LLMs are technocratizing, epistemically converging, accuracy-optimized, and polite. While that makes LLMs sound like an extremely positive development, there are many unknowns about how the technology will affect the labor market, broader economy, and the balance of power in the world. The potential uses of advanced AI in military conflicts are extremely dangerous.