Rich Roll

Zapping you of your chi and life force.

Yeah, your entire constitution, like your hormonal regulation just gets completely derailed.

Like you become captive to being impulsed by people you're never going to meet and you become this ping pong ball.

You're just bouncing around, like living your life reactively based upon what an algorithm decides to show you and what it's deciding to show you.

is going to be inflammatory or controversial or dramatic or fear-inducing in some way.

And that is not a bug.

That's the feature.

It speaks to the underlying incentive system beneath all of this.

What is this doing to our physical health and our mental health?

What does the data and the science say?

Do you have a sense of that?

Yeah.

There's some research that has come out over the last year from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT, UCLA, that basically says that reliance on AI is bad.

kind of stunting our problem solving skills, our memory retention.

I think there was one study that even compared the mental impairment of reliance on these tools to that of a drunk driver and concluded that it's even worse.

And so people are walking around like impaired as if they're drunk, like all day long.

Like it is insane what we're signing up for and kind of volunteering for.

And like you, I'm Gen X, like I'm an elder Gen X. Our neurons were formed before any of these tools came online.

But if you're Gen Z or Gen Alpha and you've never known anything differently, like your brain is being formed by these things.

And I think there's also some studies that