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Discussions on this tag center on the potential for artificial intelligence systems to replicate or amplify the harmful dynamics seen in social media, such as addiction, outrage, and polarization. A key thread features Demis Hassabis warning that as AI advances toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), engagement-first design could embed attention-harvesting mechanisms at a much larger scale. The content emphasizes the need for caution and a focus on human flourishing over optimization for engagement. This tag covers the intersection of AI development, social media harms, and ethical design considerations.
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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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