Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · Jun 9

Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself. AI poses serious risks to that foundation. New paper on epistemic risks by 30 experts calls for attention and proposes solutions. Link in thread.

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@lngrs.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everyone is now discovering Epistemology for the first time.

Jonathan Stray · Jun 9

Epistemic risks are threats to humanity's collective capacity to know things accurately, reason well, form beliefs, and maintain a healthy information environment. We focus on three mechanisms: • Persuasion & Manipulation • Cognitive Offloading • Feedback Loops

Rebecca MacKinnon · Jun 9

Thanks for this l. Can you pls share a link to the actual paper? (Sorry if you did and I failed to spot it)