Brian Eno
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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In fact, with all the discussion about AI, to me, the single most important question is who should be in control of it.
And we've seen in this century what happens when billionaires control new technologies, social media I'm talking about, and we've seen that you get completely unpredicted and quite disastrous results sometimes.
The collapse of democracy in most of our countries, I think, is very traceable to social media and to the kind of misunderstanding that –
underwrote it that, oh, let's make this amazing new medium where everyone can communicate with each other.
Oh, but we've got to make a lot of money from doing it.
You know, in a way, the big mistake was when the algorithm became maximize engagement, which means maximize profits, of course.
If maximize engagement is what you're going for, then you end up with what we have now, an internet that flourishes on anger and
nastiness in some ways.
I'm not saying, of course, that everything is like that on the internet.
But what seems to have happened in the race for profits, we've managed to sidestep the friction that normally comes with things
being born into the world.
Friction is very important.
Friction gives you a little time to see what's happening.
It makes something ease into your life more slowly so you can start to correct it as it's easing in.
I always say it's like we've invented an amazing new type of car that can travel at 750 miles an hour.
But we haven't put any brakes in it, you know, because brakes slow down the profits, basically.
Yes, yes.
This is the question I'm asking myself.
Should it be that...
we automatically have a system that says, this is a social good, all this knowledge, it's a socially produced good, and therefore its usage should reward society.
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