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Fortune
Justin Rosenstein

I helped build Facebook and saw it go wrong. AI is headed the same way

(Credit: Justin Rosenstein)

When I was 22, I sat across from a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg as he convinced me to join Facebook with his vision for connecting people. I helped him build it, then watched it become a machine for addicting them instead. Because addiction was more profitable.

Every social media company ran on the same logic: If we don’t do it, someone else will. Now, that logic is driving artificial intelligence.

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