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The next article, getting away from college students a little bit, the Atlantic Road,

what happens when people don't understand how AI works?

And I think I want to put this in the framing of the inoculation theory. So in the world of conspiracy theories, if a person knows about a

conspiracy theory and the reality of it before they come across it sort of naturally,

if they know, oh, there's this conspiracy theory going online, but here's the reality behind it.

And then they come across the theory in the wild, they'll be like, oh, it's that thing.

It's that thing that's not true.

That's the inoculation theory. It's hugely

successful in mitigating the spread of conspiracy theories. If you can get people to know about

how a conspiracy theory works ahead of time, they're much less susceptible. And so similarly,

if you can get people to deeply understand what AI is,

how LLMs work, what they do and do not do, they are far less likely to misuse them,

abuse them, fall victim to them, and so forth. So this article says, quote, many people fail to grasp how large language models work,

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