With a mandate to debate issues beyond those covered at other tech summits, founder Thomas Madsen-Mygdal explained that this summit exists as an antidote to summits that act as a platform to sell products, or as scouting opportunity for VCs to find fast-growing startups.
, claim that we are spiraling towards an era where the perfection of coding and the absolute efficiency built into tech systems is dehumanizing us and threatening the development of social skills. This may sound extreme, but Messina urged the audience to consider the youngest generations growing up having always conversed with Alexa and Siri, and basing their verbal social interactions on their expectation to immediately get the answers they are seeking, quickly and efficiently.
Similarly, audience members at the festival posed questions about the biological and psychological effects of social media on digital natives. “What is the repeated reward system of social media likes and the resulting dopamine hits doing to my child’s developing brain?” asked one attendee.
These, and other questions highlighted the type of concerns a society that has had experience of life pre-internet, holds for digital natives. It appears that we are facing unprecedented challenges in navigating the use of AI, the unchecked release of addictive online games and social media platforms, and the onslaught of visual stimuli in a constantly connected world.
Messina explained that during his time at Twitter the general modus operandi was to not seek such expert opinion, because inevitably, the opinion would be to not do whatever it was the company was intending to do. This is perhaps a clear recognition by the social media giant that there is an element of psychological manipulation, whose long term effects are not yet known.
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