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>>furcyd+(OP)
"If YouTube won’t remove the algorithm, it must, at the very least, make significant changes, and have greater human involvement in the recommendation process.", man does this person know how many videos and how many users YouTube has? They cannot use anything except an algorithm to recommend videos. They cannot use anything except an algorithm to detect videos inappropriate for children. It seems YouTube is working on this, and this opinion seems like a ill thought out fluff piece to enrage readers and sell this persons book.

>>strike+jh
All true. But all of this is making me wonder - what are the people thinking who say they can't wait for our society to be run by AI? The apex of AI capability can't even recommend videos properly right now, and we want it to run all the aspects of our society?! No, thanks.

>>mtgx+Ck
What are the people thinking who say they can't wait for our society to be run by humans? The most common state of human government capability can't even put human suffering before numbers in a virtual bank account, can't prioritise truth over falsehood, can't restrain themselves from bribery, can't reliably turn up to hearings or ballots, can't organise projects and complete them, can't compromise when millions of people depend on it. We want to dismiss alternatives which haven't even been developed yet for not being good enough?