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Back to Episodes[Linkpost] “Some tools for collective epistemics” by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut
Description
We’ve recently published a set of design sketches for AI tools that help with collective epistemics.
We think that these tools could be a pretty big deal:
- If it gets easier to track what's trustworthy and what isn’t, we might end up in an equilibrium which rewards honesty
- This could make the world saner in a bunch of ways, and in particular could give us a better shot at handling the transition to more advanced AI systems
We’re excited for people to get started on building tech that gets us closer to that world. We’re hoping that our design sketches will make this area more concrete, and inspire people to get started.
The (overly-)specific technologies we sketch out are:
- Community notes for everything — Anywhere on the internet, content that may be misleading comes served with context that a large proportion of readers find helpful
- Rhetoric highlighting — Sentences which are persuasive-but-misleading, or which misrepresent cited work, are automatically flagged to readers or writers
- Reliability tracking — Users can effortlessly discover the track record of statements on a given topic from a given actor; those with bad records come with health warnings
- Epistemic [...]
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First published:
February 6th, 2026
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zMuDoeXA9nBSeAc5g/some-tools-for-collective-epistemics
Linkpost URL:
https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-collective-epistemics
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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