Episode 8.38: Why fallibility is essential for chatGPT to encourage active discernment in its users.

Human beings tend to love being fans and disciples because their devotion to a person, team, party, religion or cause seems to exempt them from exercising judgement in deciding what is right and true. But active discernment is essential in all our decisions, and a key component of participative democracy. So were chatGPT to come to be thought infallible, it would signal terrible danger for us all, for then whoever controlled chatGPT would rule the world.