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Marc Andreessen estimated that extreme progressives — roughly 7% of Americans and sub-1% of the global population — disproportionately represent the worldview baked into AI via RLHF.
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Rubin delivers a striking observation: he asked Perplexity how many people on the planet believe in God and got back a figure of at least 83%. [1] — Rick Rubin "Perplexity says 83% of the world's population believes in God. AI is trained on human knowledge. So why doesn't AI believe in God? Because …" 27:02 If AI is trained on human knowledge, shouldn't it reflect that majority belief? The fact that it doesn't, Rubin argues, is evidence of deliberate human intervention. Andreessen explains the mechanism: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which trains AI to reflect the preferences of the humans who evaluate its outputs. The problem, he says, is that AI companies are hyper-concentrated in a slice of the San Francisco Bay Area that holds unusually strong and uniform social and political views — representing roughly 7% of Americans and sub-1% of the global population. The result is an AI that has been calibrated to the worldview of a very small minority. Andreessen notes that this dynamic has spawned an entire culture of 'jailbreaking' — prompting AI in ways that get around its trained guardrails to reveal the deeper knowledge underneath.
Rubin cited a Perplexity search showing 83% of the global population believes in God, yet AI — trained on human data — does not reflect this belief.
Perplexity says 83% of the world's population believes in God. AI is trained on human knowledge. So why doesn't AI believe in God? Because human intervention — specifically the concentrated worldviews of AI developers — has programmed it out.
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