Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
There&#x27;s a lot to be said for this line of argument. The stupidity of the Youtube recommendation engine has wrecked Brazilian politics, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;youtube-brazil.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;world&#x2F;americas&#x2F;youtube-br...</a><p>(The deliberate construction of an AI that pays people to produce lies to damage other people&#x27;s health and welfare sounds like a farfetched science fiction plot. <i>Accidentally</i> building one, and then trying to deny responsibility for it, is a far more plausible thing for humans to do to ourselves. Just as Schneier talked about the &quot;Exxon Valdez of privacy&quot;, what we have now is the tetraethyl lead of video entertainment.)