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The Joe Rogan Experience · March 22, 2023 · 2h48m
Episode #1945 - Aza Raskin & Tristan Harris
Aza Raskin and Tristan Harris from the Center for Humane Technology present a comprehensive case for the existential risks of advanced AI. They argue that AI development is creating a second-contact-level event for humanity and that current safety measures are catastrophically insufficient.
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Harris and Raskin argue that the emergence of advanced AI is not a technology release but a contact event — the first time humanity has encountered a non-human intelligence. Treating it as a product launch with quarterly earnings targets is catastrophically inappropriate.
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Social media was a first-generation attention manipulation technology; AI is a second-generation persuasion technology that can model and exploit individual psychology at scale
Harris argues that social media discovered by accident that algorithms could capture attention. AI represents the next generation: systems that can intentionally model individual psychology and produce customized persuasion at a scale no human propagandist could match.Was this useful?