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I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar.

By Jonathan Haidt 11.25.25 — Culture and Ideas

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at NYU Stern. He conducts research on moral psychology as it relates to political polarization, democratic dysfunction, capitalism, and Gen Z. He’s also the author of several books, including the best-selling The Anxious Generation.

Earlier this year, someone started a viral trend of asking ChatGPT this question: If you were the devil, how would you destroy the next generation, without them even knowing it?

Chat’s responses were profound and unsettling: “I wouldn’t come with violence. I’d come with convenience.” “I’d keep them busy. Always distracted.”

“I’d watch their minds rot slowly, sweetly, silently. And the best part is, they’d never know it was me. They’d call it freedom.”

As a social psychologist who has been trying since 2015 to figure out what on earth was happening to Gen Z, I was stunned. Why? Because what the AI proposed doing is pretty much what technology seems to be doing to children today. It seemed to be saying: If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones.

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Läs hela artikeln på The Free Press. (Betalvägg, men essensen framgår av inledningen.)

Detta kanske inte bara gäller Generation Z utan oss alla. Läs gärna Vernon Colemans artikel: You are the target of a carefully orchestrated war