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Ash Sarkar, “Social media has been allowed to prey on young people”

“And I’m not just thinking of things like abusive content. I’m talking about the all out assault on people’s attention span, their sense of themselves”

“The fact that you’re constantly on Instagram or TikTok, hating yourself because you’re looking at these altered images of people, and increasingly AI images of people”

“That’s happened because politicians weren’t able to take the real threat of this stuff all that seriously”

“If you read interviews of tech CEOs from the US, they don’t let their kids have smartphones. Why? Because they know they’re designed to be addictive. And to dull the senses”

“That’s my fear with AI”

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