Social media’s potential to profit from anti-AI sentiment

One author predicts social media algorithms will amplify anti-AI sentiment far beyond positive sentiment, helping Meta and Google earn money to subsidize their own AI. In a follow-up, the author argues that frontier labs without social platforms have the most powerful AI, but still cannot reverse-engineer social algorithms to make content promoting their AI agenda go viral. They see far greater risk from humans’ reactions to social media than from swarms of AI agents—unless those agents gain control of the algorithms.