Who dropped the ball when it came to weaponization of behavioral models? Who is government? No. So we've got this very powerful, kind of like sometimes liberatory, sometimes imprisoning body of thought. Clearly, there has to be a series of like clear rules about how it can be applied. Those rules have absolutely not emerged in any kind of enforced way.
BJ Fogg is a pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behavior Design Lab at Stanford which has taught everyone from the founders of Instagram to the leading technology ethicist Tristan Harris. In this episode Fogg speaks to Carl Miller about his new book Tiny Habits, how he cracked the code of habit formation and the potential dangers of unleashing behaviour design on the world. See more about the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Books/zgbs/books
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