#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about technology, society, and human nature. They discuss the harms of modern communication technology, polarization and anomie, how AI agents can improve human cooperation, the social implications of humanoid robots, Christakis's experience at the center of the woke moral panic at Yale, the Trump administration's assault on American universities and science, the collapse of public trust in institutions, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can

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#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us? is an episode from Waking Up with Sam Harris by Waking Up with Sam Harris.

This episode is 19:04 long.

This episode was published on Mar 24, 2026.

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