Jonathan Haidt

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303 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Jan

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Hard Fork · Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

If we can't win on social media, if we can't get consensus that this is bad and that governments should do something, if we can't win on that...

Then just give up on AI.

Just say it's game over.

Our kids are gone.

We're never going to see them again.

The boys are going to have sexy chatbots their whole lives.

They're never going to reproduce.

So if we can't win on social media, then we definitely can't win on AI.

And since we are winning on social media and since governments around the world are waking up to the fact that they have an obligation to protect kids, a lot of them have never done anything, especially our federal government, has never done a single thing, never, ever.

To protect kids on the internet.

So governments are waking up.

And so the faster we can win on social media and delaying phones and more play and phone-free schools, then we have a chance, a chance.

At least we can try to make the case, just get it out of elementary school.

Just don't let kids be talking with chatbots when they're little.

Yes, in that I'm working all the time now.

And I really want to just take the summer off.

I want to try reading books.

I think if I read physical books, maybe I'll be able to finish one.

But I have had a feeling of efficacy, a feeling that, you know, I've been working on this for a long time.

And I feel like now I've been gifted the chance to actually make a difference in the world.

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