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Episode 1: Is AI Making Us Stupid? A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Today I’m launching Into The Machine.
My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt.
Jon and I wrote a piece in The Atlantic called The Dark Psychology of Social Networks — hoping to add clarity to the debate around social media. AI has changed the conversation. We now find ourselves in a stranger moment with LLMs, asking deeper questions about what these tools are doing to our ability to think.
In this episode we discuss:
* Attention as civic infrastructure: the erosion of sustained focus undermines shared reality, and…
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