AI may repeat the mistakes of online dating

It warns that systems optimized for immediate convenience can leave people worse off than before

The decline of online dating is one of the clearest recent examples of technology serving people’s immediate impulses at the expense of what they actually want, and making them miserable in the process. Very important we don’t make the same

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