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Making Sense with Sam Harris · March 18, 2024 · 95m
#354 — The AI Dilemma
Tristan Harris on the AI arms race. The same attention-extracting dynamics that broke social media are being replicated in the AI race — but with higher stakes. Labs are racing to deploy capabilities faster than safety research can keep up.
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Harris: the falsehood-spreads-faster dynamic that Vosoughi demonstrated for social media is about to be supercharged by AI. Generative AI can produce compelling misinformation at zero marginal cost.
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Tristan Harris: social media companies redesigned the information environment to capture attention, and behavior followed automatically. This is environment-shapes-behavior at civilizational scale.
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