Growing Pro-Social AI: Ex-ECCAI President on Cultivating Machine Ecologies
tdietterich · x · 2026-08-08
Commenting on the recent malicious model incident on Hugging Face, prominent AI researcher Thomas Dietterich proposed a deeper perspective: digital ecologies of machine intelligence can be grown.
While acknowledging that we have accidentally grown a "weed" and that nasty actors will inevitably create "invasive species," he argues that we can also actively grow—rather than merely make—emergent ecologies of machine intelligence that are inherently pro-social.
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