ANCIENT WISDOM TO ADDRESS OUR AI CHALLENGE
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ANCIENT WISDOM TO ADDRESS OUR AI CHALLENGE
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The future of Artificial Intelligence is too important to leave to computer scientists alone. Chris Olah of Anthropic said this at a symposium with Pope Leo. In this episode we bring an example.
Alexandros Washburn is an urban planner and architect. He became fascinated by the power of AI to model urban resilience. He realized the models were impressive, but wrong. His fix offers a path to control AI agents without engineering endless guardrails into each agent, an approach that has visibly failed in several rogue incidents.
His solution? Form AI agents in digital cities that can imbue in each of them behavior similar to the good citizenship cities have been inculcating in people since before ancient Athens.
He is building just such a digital city, called Meta Gotham. Will it work? No way to know yet. But at least he is forcing the conversation outside the box of the frontier AI labs. His new book is Chatting with Barbarians: Can Cities Civilize AI?
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