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At The Atlantic Festival in New York, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, speaking with David Brooks, argued that Silicon Valley's high-systematizing, low-empathy personality tendencies have bred a cult of rationality, and that AI is destroying children's curiosity, attachment systems, and interpersonal interdependence — making it, for education, akin to a "neutron bomb." He advocates banning relationship-oriented AI for anyone under 18.
Steven Pinker responds to Scott Alexander's challenge for a debate on AI doomerism in an open letter, critiquing formal debates as unproductive while defending his views on AI existential risks.