// Hacker Noon · 9 February 2026

How AI Is Atomizing Society: A Look Back at Stand on Zanzibar

AI-driven personalization, especially in social media, fragments shared reality by optimizing for individual engagement rather than social coherence, quietly eroding collective agency and social cohesion without overt manipulation.

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