divorce immediatations. my colleague has a fantastic new book out entitled the loop: how technology is creating a world without choices and how to fight back. he sends a warning. my old friend, jake ward joins me now. it s very early where he is in northern california, but it s always good to see you, my friend. in your book, you write, our uncontrolled tendencies are the surfaces by which technology will shape your lives. tell me how you first beginning your book. well, thank you so much for having me on this morning. you know, conversations that you and i have had over the years online and off are part of how we got to do this. i m right to articulate that
difficult, inefficient, costly ways, you know, systems that could have been vastly more efficient, it turns out that those actually had an ethical stopgap in many cases, and all of that could be brushed aside, and this is the important takeaway, ali, our brains are such that we love to believe the verdict of a system we don t understand. the technical term is antipermorphism. if you see something that gives you a verdict and you don t understand how it works, you think, that must be right. we all use ai a lot. i think we don t all know that much at it. it s an important, great book you ve written. you ve spent a great amount of tying about it and studying. jake ward is nbc newser technology correspondent and author of the brand-new book, the loop. get yourself a copy. it is available now. don t go anywhere. there s a lot more you need to