Interesting James. I presented to the Net Zero Carbon summit for Agriculture after we had coffee together and one of the things was about automated ordering systems moving the decision point for food ordering from the supermarket aisle (possibly distracted by kids) with limited label space and time to a digital space where 1/ Decisions could be made less frequently. 2/ Decisions could be assisted by AI based systems with a simple slider interface on preferences on what supply chains to purchase from based on factors such as action on carbon emissions, animal welfare, chemical use, etc
Interesting to speculate on what effect that has on buying decisions and ag supply chains, and of course as you neatly tell here, what might go wrong.
Nice one, Paul. I can see the appeal of the idea of creating some sort of alignment through a slider interface. I think I've even tried to create similar systems for decision makers in other contexts before ("just tell me your relative weightings and I'll shortlist your options"). And what I sometimes found was that, where there was aversion the results presented based on the weightings they gave, it was often due to some sort of friction with their intuitive sense of what was right, some deeper knowledge perhaps that comprised variables that were neither represented in the "sliders", nor which they could verbally articulate particularly well, even in retrospect, but which nonetheless shaped what they ultimately decided. All that is to say, isn't human decision-making such a fascinating thing, and consequently this this whole alignment problem so very tricky indeed!
Interesting James. I presented to the Net Zero Carbon summit for Agriculture after we had coffee together and one of the things was about automated ordering systems moving the decision point for food ordering from the supermarket aisle (possibly distracted by kids) with limited label space and time to a digital space where 1/ Decisions could be made less frequently. 2/ Decisions could be assisted by AI based systems with a simple slider interface on preferences on what supply chains to purchase from based on factors such as action on carbon emissions, animal welfare, chemical use, etc
Interesting to speculate on what effect that has on buying decisions and ag supply chains, and of course as you neatly tell here, what might go wrong.
Nice one, Paul. I can see the appeal of the idea of creating some sort of alignment through a slider interface. I think I've even tried to create similar systems for decision makers in other contexts before ("just tell me your relative weightings and I'll shortlist your options"). And what I sometimes found was that, where there was aversion the results presented based on the weightings they gave, it was often due to some sort of friction with their intuitive sense of what was right, some deeper knowledge perhaps that comprised variables that were neither represented in the "sliders", nor which they could verbally articulate particularly well, even in retrospect, but which nonetheless shaped what they ultimately decided. All that is to say, isn't human decision-making such a fascinating thing, and consequently this this whole alignment problem so very tricky indeed!