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FBL110: Adam Waytz - Ethics & Minds in the Age of AI

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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The Effect of Technology on Loneliness

The idea of having a stimuli association that makes us think of humans brings to mind social media interactions on there. Have you done any work or seen any research on whether a profile is because we know it represents a human ends up evoking that same response? Or if there's some distance that's maintained because we think this is just text on a screen and not really something that feels very human-like. You know, what I meant by that is simply the capacity to interact with people at scale through technology has meant that in an instant we could have a surface level interaction with anyone.

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