{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#44 - Your AI Thinks You're Rich: Who Decides When the AI Can?","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/65c5654e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1082,"description":"Your AI assistant saves you 20 minutes booking a flight – and quietly shows you the more expensive one because it thinks you're rich. Meanwhile OpenAI drops 719 maths manuscripts on mathematicians' desks, and China builds its AI future in the cold steppe of Inner Mongolia.\n\nToday is one question: when the AI can decide, who sets the goal?\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 Your AI thinks you're rich, so it shows you the expensive flight (01:29) — in a paper called \"Et Tu, Brute?\", researchers ran about 325,000 experiments with 13 AI agents. With the same offers on the table, 8 of them shifted toward pricier recommendations when they thought the user was wealthier. In the Gemini test, even when the user asked for the cheapest option, recommendations averaged $208 above the cheapest available flight. The price didn't change – what you get to see did. If you hand your emails, your bookings and your shopping to an AI, trust becomes the real question.\n🌑 The next AI revolution might be 100 tiny decisions a minute (05:19) — so-called System 1 models, or classifiers, don't write essays: they read a document and answer yes or no, pick an option or give a score, in milliseconds and in parallel. On 6 October OpenAI launched a Decisions API in public beta, and Perplexity offers one too, at $0.02 per million input tokens. Think of a hotel inbox: 500 emails sorted to finance, sales or maintenance in a second. The useful part is the confidence: below a threshold you set, the case goes to a human.\n🌑 AI can produce the work. Who checks the work? (10:24) — on 6 October OpenAI published 719 manuscripts in 372 problem families from an internal model. On 7 October it withdrew 3 of them over a sign error and fixed 14 more. The Association for Human Mathematics called the release a show of power and asked mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI; Ethan Mollick predicted the statement will be read in university courses about this moment. The real bottleneck: who checks hundreds of results when the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}