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Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on AI, Software, and the End of the Tech Boom

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The Long Term Effects of AI on Human Behavior

We get to the point now where there's this incredible augmentation to our memory, to our ability to think. We have a couple hundred thousand years of evolutionary pressure towards recognition and all these social signals that suddenly you can get a thousand x what you used to be able to get. And you end up with a kind of cognitive diabetes. So when I say the long term effects are hard to recognize both in AI and just in what technology does to us as human beings in general, it can take a while for us to catch up like the Thames and the Charles River used to catch on fire routinely in the end of the 19th century.

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