Aza Raskin

We need to defend ourselves and the vulnerabilities from a mind that evolved on the Savannah.

And relationships are a particularly powerful way for technology to exploit our psychology.

Here's Sean Parker, the ex-president of Facebook in 2017.

And that is getting supercharged by AI, where we've already seen chatbots exploit all of our vulnerabilities, especially our psychological vulnerabilities, and our existing loneliness created by the last wave of technology to just further erode our sense of self and belonging.

And the result is a whole range of problems, including AI psychosis, which we covered on this show with Dr. Zach Stein at the end of last year.

There's this one term, AI psychosis, sort of a suitcase word.

Underneath that, there's this whole spectrum of things that are actually happening.

What are the things that are really damaging, Zach, that we're actually seeing?

Could you give some examples of people, actual cases, phenomena that we're observing through human lived experiences?

And this is why we say this is such a core principle of humane technology.

Because unless you have a clear-eyed view of what human vulnerabilities and limits and weaknesses are, then you will make products that exploit them.

And as AI will learn to discover every possible strategy that can be discovered, every human weakness that can be exploited will be exploited.

And social media is going to look like sort of baby food compared to what's coming.

And that leads us into the ultimate principle, principle number seven.

Technology must unlock shared understanding and cooperation.

There's one thing that if we could get,

we could solve every other problem.

And if we don't get this one, we will never be able to solve every other problem.

And that is the ability to make shared sense of the world and agree on directions to go.

Make good sense and make good decisions.