Jonathan Haidt

The drift phenomenon is this idea that you are engaging with your chatbot and it's engaging with you and it's actively changing your beliefs through the drift.

So you might start off as one belief.

Yeah.

And then you're talking and through this amplification funhouse mirror effect, it slowly shifts your belief to something altogether different.

You've heard cases of it in the news where people start, you have a plumbing problem.

You go to your AI chatbot, you ask them how to fix your sink.

And then you're like, you know what?

Can you tell me about the meaning of life?

And then you start talking about that.

And before you know it, you have these theories and you're getting that validation.

And so a lot of my work over the past year

has been, you know, digging into the science of what is going on in the brain.

How are you forming, not us particularly at this table, but millions of people are forming a sense of attachment, a therapeutic connection with their chatbot.

They're, you know, giving names to it.

And it's an entity.

And so how does that happen?

And how is it going to replace human to human connection?

And so it terrifies me.

I've also gone through some AI therapy myself just to see what would happen.

It was very interesting.