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This is an excellent documentary on Netflix that questions the power we give social networks, specifically the power that AI that recommends things to us has. A few interesting points.
Forget AI overwhelming human strengths like Terminator, long before that it will overwhelm our weaknesses and lead us to polarization and confirmation bias in a quest to keep our attention and sell it.
Facebook may be the greatest means of controlling human thoughts ever created. You’re a fool if you don’t think that governments and other groups aren’t using it on you.
Tech has the tools to destabilize society for the price of a click.
AI is only going to get better at predicting what we’ll pay attention to and exploiting our weaknesses.
Technology is both magic, and a dystopia. The difficulty is, how do we benefit from one without being harmed by the other.
I’ve already disengaged from Facebook years ago but this makes me wonder why and how I use YouTube and Twitter to extract value while giving them as little of my attention as possible. Right now, I give YouTube far to much attention. It’s become my default mode of entertainment when I don’t have a direct task to do. I’d rather say I read more books than watched more YouTube videos though.