Firewalls for the Mind Before We Need Them

TL; DR: Persuasive AI is underrated and under-addressed as a risk. We should preemptively deploy cognition firewalls that both address current harms by recommender systems and scale to harms by strong persuasive AI. This technology can provide a sensor array, and is recently tractable because cheap LLMs can now classify content for users.Mood music: 🎵 (photosensitivity warning)Persuasive AI[1] is currently only modestly and contextually superhuman. It outperforms humans in the lab (Hackenburg e...