Thank you for writing this; the forum is richer for having people investigate areas of work and analyse them in this way.
I don’t believe that replaceability has been sufficiently considered here (I read this quickly, so sorry if I missed it). By encouraging people with the relevant skills to work on this, what do we achieve? Would they replace someone who otherwise wouldn’t get that there is a problem with recommender systems not being aligned with what society wants?
If anything, it seems that this issue has had a huge amount of attention, and it’s likely that all those who are already working in this area are very conscious of this issue.
I would change my mind if I heard that someone surveyed several people working in this area and many of them said that they were ignorant of or overly pollyanna-ish about the risks to wellbeing from these systems.
Thank you for writing this; the forum is richer for having people investigate areas of work and analyse them in this way.
I don’t believe that replaceability has been sufficiently considered here (I read this quickly, so sorry if I missed it). By encouraging people with the relevant skills to work on this, what do we achieve? Would they replace someone who otherwise wouldn’t get that there is a problem with recommender systems not being aligned with what society wants?
If anything, it seems that this issue has had a huge amount of attention, and it’s likely that all those who are already working in this area are very conscious of this issue.
I would change my mind if I heard that someone surveyed several people working in this area and many of them said that they were ignorant of or overly pollyanna-ish about the risks to wellbeing from these systems.