Jonathan Haidt

And so really thinking about how are we going to be able to live with this technology?

I love Jonathan Stantz's to say, out, AI companions, done.

For kids, yeah.

Totally agree.

But in terms of adults, like how do we manage that for adults, you know?

And so my work focuses – right now what I'm doing is I'm spending – I've spent the year talking to every – as many AI researchers who are working on these models or who are doing research on the downstream effects of these models.

And when I say that it is dark and dystopian, it has profoundly changed something in me and it has influenced my mental health.

I had to take a step away from just – because I couldn't believe what I was learning.

So I spoke to one of the scientists who told me that there's the echo chamber phenomenon in social media, right, where we all know what that is.

It's like it's a fragmented world because of social and you're engaging and then you get the same – the algorithm feeds you the same kind of thoughts that you already have.

But particularly now with AI chatbots, when you're engaging with your chatbot, even just talking about it, I'm getting chills.

It's the echo chamber of one.

So it's you speaking to you.

It's like the funhouse mirror.

And then it's giving you a response.

And then you're talking and it's giving you a response.

But people, regular users who are using AI chatbots think that it's wise, compassionate, nonjudgmental, unbiased, empathetic, these human attributes.

And so...

The echo chamber of one is kind of one idea that really frightened me.

And the second one was the drift phenomenon.