{"id":46202,"date":"2026-02-24T20:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/bryan-johnson-says-he-wants-an-ai-agent-between-himself-and-his-social-media-i-never-want-to-see-the-raw-feed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:31:21","slug":"bryan-johnson-says-he-wants-an-ai-agent-between-himself-and-his-social-media-i-never-want-to-see-the-raw-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/bryan-johnson-says-he-wants-an-ai-agent-between-himself-and-his-social-media-i-never-want-to-see-the-raw-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Johnson says he wants an AI agent between himself and his social media: &#8216;I never want to see the raw feed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/65085e26cd637c0019c6e47d?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Bryan Johnson relaxing\"\/><figcaption>Bryan Johnson described social media as &quot;toxic&quot; and suggested AI could filter it.<\/p>\n<p>Magdalena Wosinska<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Longevity guru Bryan Johnson likened social media&#039;s impact on mental health to air pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Johnson said he&#039;s now doing social media &quot;fasts&quot; for his health.<\/li>\n<li>A solution he proposes: using AI to filter harmful content from social media feeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bryan Johnson, fresh off a 40- and 70-hour social media fast, says he&#039;s ready to put an AI buffer between him and his social feed.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the 48-year-old entrepreneur and biohacker compared social media to pollution and water toxins.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Like other toxins, it accumulates,&quot; he wrote. &quot;You can&#039;t unsee or unfeel what you&#039;ve consumed. It settles into mental tissue like heavy metals, producing chronic low-grade inflammation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating social media entirely isn&#039;t realistic, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#039;Just put the phone down&#039; is as practical as telling someone in 19th-century London to stop breathing coal smoke,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said time away from the apps is the &quot;only remedy,&quot; but he also suggested that AI agents could serve as an antidote to social media.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;An AI layer between you and the feed. Filtering rage, removing vanity metrics and translating sensationalism into calm, factual language. Preserving signal and eliminating noise,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I never want to see the raw feed. I want an AI agent to read it for me, strip the engagement metrics that hijack my judgment, filter the rage, and return only what I actually came for,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where AI agents are already proving to be expert hackers, agreeable coworkers, and custom-built board members \u2014 as well as potential security risks \u2014 Johnson&#039;s push for an AI layer between himself and his feed doesn&#039;t seem all that far off.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has made it his life&#039;s focus to try to reverse his biological age to avoid death. He spends around $2 million a year to do so, focusing on extreme treatments such as plasma therapy alongside his strict diet and exercise routine.<\/p>\n<p>His wish for an AI social media buffer also ties into his quest for a longer life, he says: &quot;I want social media to become a longevity intervention, not a longevity threat.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Johnson described social media as &quot;toxic&quot; and suggested AI could filter it. Magdalena Wosinska Longevity guru Bryan Johnson likened social media&#039;s impact on mental health to air pollution. Johnson said he&#039;s now doing social media &quot;fasts&quot; for his health. A solution he proposes: using AI to filter harmful content from social media feeds. 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