Jonathan Haidt

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · An Honest Conversation About Looksmaxxing | Jonathan Haidt · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

And we do something that matters to others.

We have a job, we care for kids, we're doing something, teens who have chores.

So we have to matter to other people.

And we especially thrive when we feel we're part of some sort of a larger community or a moral order.

We need an overarching moral framework.

So if those are three conditions for human flourishing,

What has the technology done to it?

Relationships, shallow, swipe-based.

The more connected people are, the lonelier they are because it's replaced human relationships, not augmented them.

work, a sense of purpose and meaning that you matter to others.

AI is threatening to take away vast numbers of jobs.

The technology routinely makes it that we don't need anyone else.

You can have an AI friend, you can have an AI girlfriend, boyfriend, sex partner.

So the technology is in many ways dehumanizing us by blocking relationships.

blocking our ability to matter to others and shredding any common moral framework or moral canopy under which we can have a sense of coherence so this is the world that the technology is taking us into and i think we're beginning to see an awakening i mean the fact that a number of commencement speakers were booed recently because they mentioned ai you know people are i think there is a tech lash and even though i was always very techno-optimist my whole childhood and all the way into the 2010s

You know, I think that technology is now really dehumanizing us.

And I'm inspired that people are beginning to see this and take action.

Analog schools is for sure one.

AI resistance becoming a political movement, probably with more violence.

And an unfortunate class divide over protecting kids.

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