Ben—looks like an interesting series, and it scores pretty well on IMDB so far (8.1/10, but with a fairly low sample size of 1,000).
I do find it frustrating though that most fictionalized portrayals of AI development and impacts over-use the same old tropes to create dramatic tension and conflict, e.g. the ‘evil corporation’, the ‘plucky young friends fighting for humanity’, ‘but what about human emotions and relationships’, etc.
It would be really helpful, I think, for AI safety/EA people to develop an explicit critique of how AI developments are dramatized by lazy screenwriters, and how that leads the public to misunderstand AI risks.
I agree. I’m working on a project now to understand cognitive biases which might mislead the public on AI risk and perhaps media studies is another area to explore those misunderstandings.
I will say that in Pantheon, the “evil corporation” trope feels like it gets a bit more nuanced as the series reaches its last few episodes.
Ben—let me know if you’d like to chat further about your project; sounds very interesting and useful. I’ve been studying cognitive biases on and off for the last 30 years. (Best way to reach me is by email, which is on my site primalpoly.comhere.
Ben—looks like an interesting series, and it scores pretty well on IMDB so far (8.1/10, but with a fairly low sample size of 1,000).
I do find it frustrating though that most fictionalized portrayals of AI development and impacts over-use the same old tropes to create dramatic tension and conflict, e.g. the ‘evil corporation’, the ‘plucky young friends fighting for humanity’, ‘but what about human emotions and relationships’, etc.
It would be really helpful, I think, for AI safety/EA people to develop an explicit critique of how AI developments are dramatized by lazy screenwriters, and how that leads the public to misunderstand AI risks.
I agree. I’m working on a project now to understand cognitive biases which might mislead the public on AI risk and perhaps media studies is another area to explore those misunderstandings.
I will say that in Pantheon, the “evil corporation” trope feels like it gets a bit more nuanced as the series reaches its last few episodes.
Ben—let me know if you’d like to chat further about your project; sounds very interesting and useful. I’ve been studying cognitive biases on and off for the last 30 years. (Best way to reach me is by email, which is on my site primalpoly.com here.