{"id":147973,"date":"2022-10-11T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-future-of-fake-news-and-our-mental-health"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:25:49","slug":"the-future-of-fake-news-and-our-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-future-of-fake-news-and-our-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Fake News And Our Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-fake-news-and-our-mental-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breakthrough AI programs can now generate videos from text input. The U.S. suicide rate and the prevalence of anxiety disorders are at all-time high. The White House has announced the \u201cAI Bill of Rights.\u201d What\u2019s the connection between these 3 news items?<\/p>\n<p>They all hint at how we will live our lives in the near future: As illusionists, making up imaginary worlds, fearing fabricated threats, led by conjurers, tricksters, and demagogues. For some, this prediction is already a good approximation of their present reality.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with \u201cAI,\u201d the most exciting, confusing, and menacing technology of our times.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Are we already living in a \u201cmetaverse\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough AI programs can now generate videos from text input. The U.S. suicide rate and the prevalence of anxiety disorders are at all-time high. The White House has announced the \u201cAI Bill of Rights.\u201d What\u2019s the connection between these 3 news items? They all hint at how we will live our lives in the near [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}