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Hi. In today's episode, we're looking at what A.I. is doing to our brains, how chatbots manipulate people to engage for as long as possible, and why the CEOs of A.I. companies are the people you should trust the least.

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A.I. Is Messing With Our Mental Health - PATREON

Hi. In today's episode, we're looking at what A.I. is doing to our brains, how chatbots manipulate people to engage for as long as possible, and why the CEOs of A.I. companies are the people you should trust the least.

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AEPSchmitt

I find it interesting that the only people excited about AI in my life are all middle-managers. They realised AI can actually do most of their emailing and scheduling work, but fail to recognize that this means their entire profession is about to be outsourced to a machine. If you find AI useful, maybe you are just useless?

Aidan Walker

The video is saying, "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" and it's not giving me any options to sign in. Is there another way I can watch this?

Steve Snyder

I’d be worried about this country losing its critical thinking skills if 2016 and 2024 hadn’t proved me that a plurality of us already had. Just so you know this photo 👈 of me was taken in December 2016 on the Kawarau bridge in Queenstown. It was my first time bungee jumping and I did it with zero fear because my country had elected Donald Trump, and nothing could be worse than that.

Andrew

Great episode. Really appreciated the post credits crashout too. Keep up the great work guys

Steven Smith

I spend years getting a degree, unpaid internships, and licensure, and people think that can be replaced by a Nintendo with a game genie.

ALKS

I've been thinking about the issue you mention starting around 33:40 with more and more people turning to chatbots for advice and therapy... and wondering, are they though? Or rather - are they doing so intentionally? What I mean is - apparently most of the major search engines are now showing chatbot results and encouraging chatbot followups, ahead of their traditional search results. Because that keeps people on the site where they can be shown more ads, rather than going to another site and not being shown more ads. What if people are just, you know, trying to *search the web* for advice, or to find a real therapist, and being steered towards a chatbot session by default now?

Alexander

I’m a teacher who’s been spending the last few months tinkering with various AI agents and trying to find a legitimate educational use for these things and…I just can’t. Or at least I haven’t been able to find anything useful in an ELA context. It’s hard to teach writing while using a tool that’s constantly offering to do the work for you.