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A society's best shot of protecting itself from the potential negative effects of unknown future technologies is ensuring that everyone's basic needs are met. Desperate people do desperate things.

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How would meeting everyone's basic needs help for example against disinformation campaigns on social media destabilizing democracies?

If everyone's basic needs are met, they won't be so discontented and thus easily be swayed by destabilising propaganda.

You're confusing "the best thing you can do" with "the only thing you need to do."

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