What Casey Newton thinks about behavioural science

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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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1. 11 Sept 2026

   Our readingPublic sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.

   Their wordsBut public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.

   ↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 2nd of 3 in this piece