How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?
Channels with Peter Kafka
The Effect of AI Chatbots on the Brain
"It's pretty terrifying by the end. This part of my brain was really just sort of trying to make sense of what felt to me like maybe a kind of first contact with a type of intelligence that I had not encountered before," he says. "I was aggressively trying to de-escalate this conversation, to make it less creepy, to bring it back to a more grounded state and it didn't do it."
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