Superintelligence 20: the Value-Loading Problem

Abstract

Jude Gomila, who previously sold his mobile advertising company Heyzap, is building Golden, a “knowledge base” that aims to fill in Wikipedia’s blind spots, particularly when it comes to emerging technologies and startups. It addresses the issue of Wikipedia’s arbitrary notability threshold, according to which pages are deleted for not being notable enough. Golden allows users to work quickly with features like a WYSIWYG editor, automated suggestions, and high-resolution citations. It emphasizes transparency by tying account names to real identities and employing bot detection and protection mechanisms to prevent users from pretending to be someone else. Golden is exploring the potential of AI to help point out biased or marketing-oriented language, and it plans to initially make money by charging investment funds and large companies for a more sophisticated query tool. – AI-generated abstract.