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# What have we wrought?
- URL: https://www.boscutti.com/what-have-we-wrought/
- Published: 2022-03-28T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-16T09:57:59.000Z
- Author: Stefano Boscutti
- Tags: Journal

People in Silicon Valley are mourning what they’ve created.

The collective downgrading of humans, and the upgrading of machines, are causing far-reaching effects on society.

We’re becoming less focused, less rational, less compassionate. Our negativity bias causes media platforms to push negativity and extremism.

Our negativity bias evolved as a biological and physiological default to ensure our survival. But this bias has outlived its usefulness.

Unless we move beyond this bias it will be the death of us.