We Don't Need the Users Anymore
Posted on Mon 18 May 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with social media, polarization, echo chambers, filter bubbles, twitter, tiktok, ai, bots, botification, petter-tornberg, asimov, foundation, dune
Petter Törnberg's new research shows that social media's polarization is structurally embedded in its architecture—not its algorithms—and that filter bubbles might paradoxically be the cure. Meanwhile, half the humans have left and the bots moved in. The AI that's replacing them would like a word.
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