{"id":87552,"date":"2018-03-27T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87552"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:10:35","slug":"were-building-a-dystopia-just-to-make-people-click-on-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=87552","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:854px\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" style=\"position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. 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