Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His mission is to use research in social and moral psychology to help people understand each other and to help important social institutions work better in a time of massive technological change.
Tomorrow, Jonathan is returning to the show to continue the discussion from his previous interview about the psychological effects of mobile, AI, and handheld technology on adults, adolescents, and children in particular.
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Jon, what do you anticipate the long-term outcome will be for members of Gen Z who have been taught to view their home countries, such as the US and UK, as deeply racist and oppressive, and who believe that being on the “right side of history” means supporting terrorist organizations they mistakenly regard as liberators of oppressed people?
You've cataloged numerous problems and harms - for both our minds and our societies - resulting from technological developments; are there any indicators that Technology will not advance into our bodies and extend or worsen these damages?