Enabling empathy at scale
summary
Argues that amplifying human empathy with AI can enable cooperation at planetary scale, backed by a working system: intonation-based toxicity detection that analyzes nonverbal voice cues across languages, trained on millions of conversations and demonstrated spotting child distress in a Fortnite session. Cites platform scale—about three billion online players and roughly 68% reporting toxicity—and notes Otto is now part of Unity to deploy active moderation and scale to billions of users.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:17Humans are social animals
- 5:13The Prisoners Dilemma
- 14:29How the Brain Works
- 19:02Voice
- 20:07Toxicity
- 23:33Conclusion
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