Making Machines Understand Humans

Описание: Making Machines Understand Humans: Behavioral Data Science, Trust, and AI’s Real Risks

Data scientist and behavioral decision theorist Ganna Pogrebna explains behavioral data science as making machines understand human preferences, goals, and values, outlining three strands: economic psychology, mathematical analysis of algorithm behavior, and engineering of complex human–machine systems.

She discusses ethical concerns around “trust” in probabilistic large language models, how algorithmic recommendations shape user agency, and the uncertain impacts of relationship AI amid rising loneliness and changing communication. Pogrebna argues AI can both degrade and enhance skills depending on use, citing evidence on navigation and a radiology study where weaker doctors worsened while stronger improved with decision support.

She emphasizes LLMs as pattern-imitating creativity tools prone to errors, warns of “data inbreeding” as human data becomes scarce, and advocates defining problems first—often solvable via behavioral design—plus diverse oversight to anticipate harms. She advises young people to build transferable skills, be AI-literate, and pursue real-world problems, and highlights her future focus on data-scarce modeling and quantum decision approaches.

00:00 Meet Ganna Pogrebna

01:01 What Behavioral Data Science Does

02:15 Three Strands of the Field

04:35 Trust Ethics and Agency

07:21 Relationship AI and Loneliness

11:53 Skills We Lose and Gain

14:40 System One vs System Two

17:45 LLMs as Creativity Tools

22:02 Illusion of Understanding

24:03 AGI Consciousness Skepticism

27:26 Data Inbreeding and Human Data

30:25 AI Homogenizes Our Voice

31:40 AI for Smarter Cities

32:48 Cities Need Human Focus

33:29 Time Perception Happiness

34:58 Designing Time Stoppers

37:15 Behavioral Design Wins

39:06 Do You Need AI

42:52 AI Risk And Context

47:01 Anticipating Harms Early

49:54 Government Automation Paths

53:59 Diversity Beyond Optics

01:00:13 Advice For Teen Learners

01:05:47 Quantum Decision Making

01:08:22 Closing Thanks

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