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The Asymmetry of Power in Human Relationships
Steve Hassan: It's important that people take responsibility for their choices. But what this might miss is the asymmetry of power, which is to say, if TikTok has a supercomputer trained on what hundreds of millions of human social primates click on it can make more and more accurate predictions about which videos will keep you watching. And so it's the degree of asymmetry between people's own agency and the system in which they're making choices within. There's a whole area of law on undue influence, which is really trying to measure the asymmetryof power in human relationships.
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