One valid question, though, is why technologists don't think about the consequences of what they do before they do it? Because they can’t. There’s no way Larry

One valid question, though, is why technologists don't think about the consequences of what they do before they do it? Because they can’t. There’s no way Larry and Sergei could’ve foreseen the multi billion dollar SEO industry back when they were at Stanford. Every decision they’ve made since then has been of the form “stay on the gravy train or jump off?” I don’t think anyone knows how to solve the problem of adversarial inputs in either the search space or the ML space. It’s a chicken and egg problem: you’re trying to build intelligence but the task of filtering out the adversarial inputs requires intelligence in the first place.