As a kid, my parents limited me to an hour of TV every day. I found that if I recorded three half hour episodes of Save by the Bell and then fast forwarded through the commercials, I could fit almost three full episodes into one hour. And so that was how I tried to evade my parents' TV limits. But I do think that building in features, parental controls to social media apps that allow parents to not only like see what their kids are doing on social media does make sense as much as the inner teenager that is still inside me rebels against that.
The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, says social media poses a “profound risk of harm” to young people. Why do some in the tech industry disagree?
Then, Ajeya Cotra, an A.I. researcher, on how A.I. could lead to a doomsday scenario.
Plus: Pass the hat. Kevin and Casey play a game they call HatGPT.
On today’s episode:
Ajeya Cotra is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy
Additional reading:
The surgeon general issued an advisory about the risks of social media for young people.
Ajeya Cotra has researched the existential risks that A.I. poses unless countermeasures are taken.