HUMHUM-004 — Trust and Acceptance Issues
AI-Driven Content Algorithms Risk Degrading Society's Collective Reasoning
3/5Sector: OtherGeography: USAStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Algorithmic content selection is increasing epistemic insularity and eroding trust in credible, multipartisan information sources. This weakens society's capacity to coordinate on systemic threats such as pandemics and climate change, with direct implications for regulatory and reputational risk.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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