Jonathan Haidt

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899 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

Jonathan Haidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And there's all these skills that we're okay offload.

Okay, we're not as good as our ancestors at finding our way around.

We can offload that.

But what AI is offering to do is how about thinking?

How about you don't have to do your thinking?

And I find myself doing this now.

As soon as a question occurs to me, I just type it.

I feel like I don't want to think.

I just type in the question to Claude and it will tell me the answer.

And okay, that's not so harmful for me because I'm already developed.

But my God, I don't want my kids doing that.

I want my kids to think and think and think and think hard.

So a couple of points.

One is the reason why social media is such a trap is because everyone's on it, so everyone feels they have to be on it.

And if you close that down, we know this, I think we're seeing it in Australia, there is some digital substitution.

Kids will go to other, they're not gonna go outside and play necessarily, they're gonna go to other things online.

So some kids could go to worse places, that's true, some kids could.

But if you break the trap and you free people so that they don't feel they have to be there,

And we're seeing this in Australia too.

There was an article a few months ago about a big upsurge in boys going fishing.

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