Headline, July 22 2026/ DANGEROUS : ''' MIMIC HUMANS MINDS '''

DANGEROUS : 

''' MIMIC HUMANS MINDS '''

THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - FOR every subject in the world - pits Greatness against all and every Evil. !WOW! is about attempting great things and only great things will ever be attempted and forever done.

SO - A.I. chatbots that mimic humans are dangerous. The technology manipulates the parts of our brain that bonds us to other people.

I was an early adopter of the internet, joining a friend's so-called bulletin board system in 1990, before social media even existed. Though I loved it, my 24/7 enthusiasm also concerned me.

I had been addicted to cocaine and heroin, which I quit in 1988 - so I was well aware of my compulsive tendencies. In a 1996 piece for The Times Magazine, I described how I had to work to control my internet use because '' once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming out of the cave can be quite difficult.''

That experience, and my later obsession with social media, left me wary of interacting with artificial intelligence chatbots, which seem likely to be more addictive.

A recent case against Facebook and YouTube has yielded a multimillion dollar judgment for claims that social media is harming teens and leading to addiction, depression and thoughts of self-harm.

Earlier this year, Google and Character AI agreed to settle a lawsuit with the family of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide after communicating with a chatbot; other cases claim that bots have driven psychosis and mass shootings.

EXPERTS have long noted that social media casts its spell primarily by capturing attention. Zak Stein, the founder of the A.I. Psychological Research Center, says that chatbots play our heartstrings as well, manipulating the systems that bond us as to one another in what he calls attachment hacking.

These different lures may require different cures, in terms of both regulation and the actions that people can take to prevent their own compulsive use.

Attention hacking addicts people, in part, by providing varying rewards almost randomly. Its how casinos and social media keep people engaged : by manipulating consumers' experience to make elusive gains seem close.

In the brain, this intermittent reinforcement causes massive spikes of dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with desire.

Research suggests that about 15 percent of North Americans meet criteria for social media addiction, defined essentially as compulsive use that continues despite negative consequences.

The harms from these technologies may vary as a result. Attention hacking can reduce the ability to focus. Studies suggest that heavy social media use worsens symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, whether they have the condition or not.

Most of us now can attest to the way it drives distraction and impedes concentration.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Technologies, Threats, Harms and the Future, continues. !WOW! thanks Maia Szalavitz.

With respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of the World Students Society, and then Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world

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