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The A.I. Dilemma
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin connect generative AI to the incentives and failures of the attention economy.
Social media delegated decisions about human attention to optimization systems. Generative AI extends that delegation into knowledge, persuasion, creation, and action.
Some predictions deserve skepticism. The institutional question remains: how does society govern technology that changes faster than the machinery of accountability, which was not famous for speed to begin with?