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The cognitive-impacts tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about how artificial intelligence systems may affect human cognition, attention, and well-being. A prominent thread features Demis Hassabis warning that AI could replicate the harmful attention-harvesting dynamics seen in social media, such as addiction, outrage, and polarization, but at a much larger scale as AGI approaches. The content emphasizes the risk of engagement-first AI products that optimize for attention rather than human flourishing. This tag is relevant for users interested in the psychological and societal effects of AI, ethical AI design, and comparisons between social media harms and emerging AI risks.
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    Hassabis Warns AI Could Mirror Social Media Harm as AGI Approaches

    Demis Hassabis’s warning lands like a wake-up call: as artificial intelligence advances toward the kind of general, agentic systems researchers call AGI, the very same attention-harvesting dynamics that turned social media into a global amplifying lens for addiction, outrage, and polarization...
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