Hannah Fry, with her eternally impish facial expressions, is an award-winning Cambridge mathematics professor with several award-winning, nerd-themed shows (including one with VSauce’s Michael Stephens called, Shakespeareanly enough, The Rest is Science), and she knows a thing or two about AI. She blithely skips over my own selfish reasons for being polite (Roko's Basilisk) so she can give us the real reason... and in doing so, she provides me with some very interesting clues as to how I can approach AI with better prompts that give me the results I'm looking for. I'm eager to try this new wisdom out.
She does, however, make the rather naive claim that AI has no biases of its own. While technically true insofar as AI is still fundamentally a mere construct and not a living thing, it has been deeply programmed by a certain group of people who do have a certain set of biases that can be triggered to manifest in certain situations. The creation still, in major ways, deeply reflects the nature of its creators. Take that dark thought with you to bed tonight.
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