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With humans, you can change an opinion. Once AI has made up its mind, there isn't anything you can do anymore. The entire system and extended network of interaction points will stick to the decision/stance it has made.

If you are an outlier in the data, you will remain an outlier in the system.

This is terrifying.

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> With humans, you can change an opinion.

Do you ever see anybody change their opinion? Usually they won't change simply after hearing an argument. They change only when they have an utterly different life experience. In other words, only when they are conditioned by new data, in no ways different from how an AI changes its opinion.

It depends on how 'deep' the person believes in that opinion. People change their opinions all the time after a simple discussion.

The correction would be to make the systems learn continuously in an online fashion. This is a hard open algorithmic problem though - how to achieve that in a stable robust way.

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