
Yeah, definitely. When we talk about the ability for machines to achieve certain outcomes, most of those machine learning algorithms just maximise for that outcome. For example, if you teach a social media algorithm to keep people engaged, that is to say, glued to it, then as we mentioned in the previous podcast, most of those algorithms just show you the most conflicting, the most extreme, the most hateful content because it triggers the part of the brain that wants to keep arguing with it and therefore people become glued to their screen.