Dr. Todd Rose

I mean, we're talking about, so we know on social media writ large, that roughly one fourth of all the interactions you ever have are with bots and you don't know it.

One fourth of all your interactions on social media are with bots and you don't know it.

And with AI enabled bots, you wouldn't be able to tell.

They are so sophisticated.

So you just have to be careful to know if you just get to that point and understand this concept of a collective illusion, right?

Right.

Group think, but you're wrong about the group.

So why would you conform?

Like if you conform to something your group doesn't want, you're destroying the group you actually care about.

They absolutely do not.

I mean, we have the data.

You can download all of it.

We've studied everything from the kind of lives people want to live, the kind of country they want to live in, what they want from education, health care, criminal justice.

It is shocking.

When you get beyond the social pressure and the distortion, we are unbelievably similar in our aspirations, in our fears, in our desires.

but we just don't believe it's true.

And so we act accordingly.

And to your point, when we get weary and we just go silent,

It's understandable, but then it becomes part of the illusion, right?

Because nobody's speaking up to the people that matter most to us.