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The engagement-economy tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the economic and social dynamics of attention-harvesting systems, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence. Recent content highlights warnings from Demis Hassabis that AI systems, as they approach artificial general intelligence (AGI), risk replicating the harmful engagement-first dynamics seen in social media—optimizing for addiction, outrage, and polarization at a massive scale. The tag focuses on the tension between building AI for human flourishing versus maximizing user attention, and the ethical implications of embedding such incentives into AI products. This is a niche but critical topic for those interested in AI ethics, digital economics, and the societal impact of technology.
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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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