Arthur Brooks
speaker
491 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Your phone is a tool.
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It's a tool.
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It's not a friend.
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It's not a therapist.
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It's not there to give you the girlfriend or boyfriend experience.
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It's a tool.
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It's a hammer.
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It's a toaster, is what it is.
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The way that people treat their technology is much the same way as alcoholics treat alcohol, that gamblers treat gambling.
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I use AI constantly, and there's an AI Arthur as well.
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But it's not a substitute for me any more than AI Dave is a substitute for you.
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The problem is it makes us less human when people use it in the wrong way.
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And the wrong way is as follows.
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We have a set of complex problems in our lives that are all about love and mystery and meaning.
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AI is great at complicated information-based problems.
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And so I should use it for those things in my work.
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And then it should free up my time to spend more time with the complex problems of mystery and meaning and love and happiness.
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You know, today, when you've got your phone, your life moment to moment is never boring, but your life overall is extremely boring.
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And I've studied leisure a little bit because as a behavioral scientist, it's a very interesting topic.
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It's not chillin'.
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