If We’re Addicted to Technology, What’s the Cure?

in federal court alleging that Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, “has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens.” A central allegation in the suit is that “by algorithmically serving content to young users according to variable reward schedules, Meta manipulates dopamine release in its young users, inducing them to engage repeatedly with its Platforms—much like a gambler at a slot machine.

We are desperately afraid of becoming addicted to our machines—the theme of “Void,” Mexican novelist Julián Herbert’s moody and compelling Future Tense Fiction story—and are deeply convinced we already are. We are also painfully aware of the inadequacy of our tools for dealing with addiction.. The incompleteness of the research has not stopped governments—in China, South Korea, and the U.K.—from embedding assumptions about its prevalence and mechanisms into their laws.

But these days, it’s often 12 steps or bust. And for many—including Herbert’s unnamed protagonist—the stumbling block to getting through those 12 steps is the bit where he’s supposed to come, as Alcoholics Anonymous describes it, to “believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

When we make A.I. in our own image, will it have our flaws? And is the project of using the law to limit the relationship between A.I.s and humans doomed to failure? Whatever trouble our tech has facilitated so far, the tech hasn’t been the instigator. And humans, even the smallest ones, have ways of defeating the cages we build for ourselves.

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