With gamblers now leveraging everything from election outcomes to mundane aspects of daily life on for-profit prediction markets, one Oxford philosopher warns that many public forecasts can be disastrous for individuals making decisions about their futures.
Carissa Véliz, an associate philosophy professor at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI, spoke to Epoch TV in an interview released on Aug. 11 about the risks of heeding public predictions about humanity’s future and how these proclamations can drive or derail individuals’ lives.
“If you take my prediction at face value and just act as if that were true, then you’re obeying. And that gets trickier when there are social predictions,” Véliz told “American Thought Leaders” host Jan Jekielek….