John Gafford

But in the age of AI as it's coming up, I know you talk a lot about this.

How is that gonna become a measure of critical?

How's that gonna change this stuff?

Well, what's worse is in the age of social media, it is required that you have an opinion about everything.

You know, I've often said on this ship program, one of the most valuable things that you can do is, is master the phrase.

I don't have an opinion on that.

It's just,

There's a lot of – there's more power in that statement than saying something dumb that you're regurgitating that you heard online.

But I think that's getting harder and harder because with the algorithms through social media and Twitter, they have one job, keep you on the platform.

That's it.

So they've placed you in this echo chamber of just the same repetitive voice coming through you.

And you're

most people don't take the time to say, hey, what does the other side maybe of this coin look like?

What does the other side of this issue look like?

And I have found, I mean, that's the majority of the American population now is incredibly polarized because of this.

So from a behavioral science standpoint, two-point question, number one, how important is it that we break that cycle?

And two, how do we break that cycle?

What I was going to say is my default mechanism for that is literally just to say that any time that I am triggered emotionally by something that is not living and breathing in front of me, there's an excellent chance I'm being manipulated somehow.

Oh, I'd say 98% of the population is a little closer.

No, but how many people, I mean, I know, I mean.