Vibe Check: AI and Behavioral Science in Silicon Valley - by Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist

So if I’m the most advanced OnlyFans performer or worker, what I need in order to scale is to chat with more people, but because I’m only one person, there’s a limit to what I can do. So I created a bot that allows me to have chats with many more people around the world at one time for a certain fee. Now my business as one person has scaled incredi... See more

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Vibe Check: AI and Behavioral Science in Silicon Valley

By Evan Nesterak

February 16, 2025

Every day, another feature of society is poised for an AI revolution. How will AI change (big inhale) our jobs, relationships, parenting, schools, art, music, sex, war, public safety, public policy, public transport, scientific research, health car... See more

Evan Nesterak: What is a blind spot that you think people developing AI have about human behavior?

Kristen Berman: One AI promise is a “do it for me” model. “Write my email for me. Tell me the best restaurants in this place for me.” That is actually very aligned with behavioral science, with our methodology of making things easier for people. If we... See more

This is the world in which every app can become a TikTok. I think that’s scary. TikTok uses a lot of clever behavioral signals like how long have you stayed watching a video and AI to quickly create a map of your preferences and then serve you up very, very compelling videos. I challenge anyone to go on TikTok for 10 minutes and not stay on for an ... See more

The second thing, and this is the controversial one, is that we have these words like “loneliness epidemic.” I actually think it’s a friendship epidemic where people need more friends, more high quality friends, and that’s actually a very difficult problem to solve because it’s an offline problem. It takes a lot of vulnerability from people. There ... See more