How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)

Researcher Oly Sourbut discusses how AI tools might strengthen human reasoning, from fact-checking and scenario planning to honest AI standards and better coordination, and explores how to keep humans central while building trustworthy, society-wide sensemaking.

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Show Notes

Oly Sourbut is a researcher at the Future of Life Foundation. He joins the podcast to discuss AI for human reasoning. We examine tools that use AI to strengthen human judgment, from collective fact-checking and scenario planning to standards for honest AI reasoning and better coordination. We also discuss how we can keep humans central as AI scales, and what it would take to build trustworthy, society-wide sensemaking.

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(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:03) FLF and human reasoning

(08:21) Agents and epistemic virtues

(22:16) Human use and atrophy

(35:41) Abstraction and legible AI

(47:03) Demand, trust and Wikipedia

(57:21) Map of human reasoning

(01:04:30) Negotiation, institutions and vision

(01:15:42) How to get involved

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