Ayad Akhtar: AI Ad Tech Is Warping Our Minds - The Atlantic
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Artificially intelligent advertising technology is poisoning our societies.
Paul Spella / The Atlantic This essay has been adapted from a lecture delivered at the Newark Public Library in honor of Philip Roth. Something unnatural is afoot. Our affinities are increasingly no longer our own, but rather are selected for us for the purpose of automated economic gain. The automation of our cognition and the predictive power of technology to monetize our behavior, indeed our very thinking, is transforming not only our societies and discourse with one another, but also our very neurochemistry. It is a late chapter of a larger story, about the deepening incursion of mercantil
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