Yes. What I meant is that if you rely on a few Big Tech people to anticipate the local cultural communal needs, using very thin rules—which is called the “context-free rules” that they must follow to fit all those different cultural expectations—of course, it does not work. It is exactly the same issue as expecting that simply voting among eight candidates every four years can capture the response to all the emerging issues. So it is fundamentally flawed. I think it will be much better if the designers of AI systems stay humble and, instead of making tech progress at the expense of local communities, empower the local community in what I call “techno-communitarianism” so that each community can steer their own AI model toward their own local norms.

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