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Firewalls for the Mind Before We Need Them.

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A LessWrong post argues that persuasive AI is an underrated and under-addressed risk and calls for preemptively deploying "cognition firewalls" to address harms from recommender systems and stronger persuasive AI.

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“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.”
LessWrong, 20 Oct 2026, 13:58.

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