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Derek Thompson

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9152 total appearances

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

And I don't believe in censoring them or anything.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

But I'll tell you what happened.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

We have several countries that basically manipulated social media with bot farms, with fake addresses,

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

break the American sympathy to Israel, to break the American-Israeli alliance because they think it's in their interests.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

And they do it in a clever way.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

It's like you hear a text message.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

I'm a red-blooded Texan.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

I always supported Israel, but I can't stand what they're doing.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

I'm turning against Israel.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

And then you trace the address to some basement in Pakistan.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

And that's something that has hurt us badly.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover

While we were fighting the physical military battle on seven battlefields, seven-front war, we were completely exposed on the eighth front, the media war, really the social media war.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

Yeah, of course.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

Of course he's right.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

Maybe we'll explore some disagreements between me and Cal in a few minutes, but on this, I think he's hit it right on the money.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

I mean, if you doubt what Cal is saying,

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

and you use AI, pay attention to your own life.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

Pay attention to your own use of time.

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

When you ask artificial intelligence to summarize an article, or to summarize a paper, or God forbid, to summarize an entire book,

Prof G Markets
AI Is Making Us All Dumber

do you understand that article, that paper, or that book as well as if you had read it?