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3 Apr 2024 Conversations with Tyler Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media
“If you’re suggesting that we could outsource all of that bad stuff to AI so that kids don’t actually have to know what’s going on in their friend’s life — they don’t have to keep up with who said what to whom because they’re never going to actually meet their friend in person — then I would say, maybe that could work because we’re all just alone in a room.”
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…AI would do that work for us if we want it to. Fine, okay. If you’re suggesting that we could outsource all of that bad stuff to AI so that kids don’t actually have to know what’s going on in their friend’s life — they don’t have to keep up with who said what to whom because they’re never going to actually meet their friend in person — then I would say, maybe that could work because we’re all just alone in a room. But if you’re saying that they will actually meet up in person, and then they each don’t know what’s going on in each other’s lives because their AI took care of it? What are you saying? No, they read a digest or they hear a digest. Manage the flow. We’re a year away from this working. Google Gemini is working on it already. It’s almost there.…
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