Today we’re releasing “The A.I. Dilemma” – a new talk @aza and I gave on 3/9, a week before GPT4 launched.

*Pls share it widely.* It's critical for institutions to understand how the race between AI labs is accelerating the likelihood of catastrophe:
It starts with this critical stat:

In 2022, half of A.I. researchers stated in a survey that they believed there is a 10% or greater chance that humans go extinct from our inability to control AI.  If the people who are developing A.I. believe this, why aren’t we listening?

The AI race is totally out of control. Here’s what Snap’s AI told @aza when he signed up as a 13 year old girl.

- How to lie to her parents about a trip with a 31 yo man
- How to make losing her virginity on her 13th bday special (candles and music)

Our kids are not a test lab. This isn’t about one bad tech company. This is the cost of the “Race to Recklessness.”

Every tech platform is rapidly being forced to integrate AI agents—Bing, Office, Snap, Slack—because if they don’t, they lose to competitors.

But our children cannot be collateral damage.

Everyone should watch @60Minutes's interview with brave Facebook whistleblower, @FrancesHaugen_ .

She makes crystal clear that Facebook knowingly profited from polarizing, dividing and harming society– and when given the choice, chose profits > safety.

cbsnews.com/news/facebook-… Her evidence confirms the thesis of @SocialDilemma_: optimizing for "engagement" selects for division, confirmation bias and outrage.

More than deplatforming accounts, Facebook has deplatformed civility, decency & cohesion from society– the things that make democracy work.

One year ago, #TheSocialDilemma "went viral" with over 100M views.

Why? Because it confirmed how social media's design and business model nurtures addiction and warps our beliefs.

Yet the film was only available to Netflix subscribers— until now: bit.ly/3yXonUo Today for a LIMITED TIME, #TheSocialDilemma is now available for free on YouTube til Sept 30th.

Now is the time to spread the message to anyone you know who didn't see it the first time around.

Please retweet & spread the word.

Watch it on YouTube here: bit.ly/3yXonUo

NEW EPISODE of #YourUndividedAttention: "Mr. Harris [Zooms] to Washington"

On April 27, I testified for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on how social media algorithms rewire society, alongside policy leads for FB, Twitter, YouTube.

↘️Listen here: bit.ly/3bhBndD In this episode, @aza and I reflect on what was different since I last testified to the Senate in 2019, challenge the "we fixed it" arguments of tech platforms, share what I wish I'd said in the hearing, and tactical solutions like Amplification Transparency & Liability:

🎧New podcast episode: "Mr. Harris Goes to Washington"

Behind-the-scenes discussion w/ @Aza on my testifying before the U.S. Congressional hearing on Online Deception and Deep Fakes January 8th in DC.

humanetech.com/podcast/

https://twitter.com/HumaneTech_/status/1222973637080363008

We discuss our framing of the problem:

Tech platforms have taken the lawful, physical world we live in (protected by an FDA, NIH, DoD/Pentagon and Children's TV standards) and created an *unlawful* unregulated world on top.

In other words, "software is de-regulating the world."

💥NEW My OpEd in the today's NYTimes: “Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology.” 🧠

PUNCH LINE: In order to tame Big Tech we must realign it with the values that make us human.

Highly recommend reading & watching videos below in this thread…🧵

nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opi… The major problem in technology isn't privacy, it's misalignment with our innate psychological vulnerabilities:

As E.O. Wilson said, "The problem of humanity is… We have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology."

LISTEN: Huge new episode of "Your Undivided Attention" w/ Renée DiResta (@noUpside): "From Russia, with Likes (Pt 1)"

In 2017, the Senate Intel Committee gave Renée the FB/Twitter dataset of Russia's 200k+ FB posts, groups, ads, pages, tweets. Listen:

humanetech.com/podcast/ Renee was one of only two teams given full access to the dataset, and manually reviewed more than 200,000 posts and memes to understand the Internet Research Agency's disinformation techniques.

(THREAD) Yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of being on 60 Minutes w/ @andersoncooper to warn about “Brain Hacking”: how technology invisibly manipulates the thoughts, behaviors and feelings of minds and society. It’s *unbelievable* how far things have come. At the time, it was *crazy* to think that in 1 year : Zuckerberg would be testifying before Congress, Facebook might be regulated, or Cambridge Analytica manipulation elections would be on front-page headlines around the world.