The future might be shaped by whatever AI tells everyone today

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Summary

A reflection on how AI recommendations at scale might shape collective behavior and the future, suggesting that asking what AI tells people could be a forecasting method.

I keep thinking about how many people now ask AI what product to buy, what skill to learn, what place to visit, etc. If AI keeps giving similar answers to millions of people, those answers might help create or influence the future. For example, if everyone is told to learn the same skills, we could end up with more people moving in the same direction without realizing why. Maybe one way to partially forecast the future is to ask “what is AI telling people to do at scale?”
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