Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing
Right now, across all levels of government, from small-town sheriffs to massive federal agencies, police are adopting AI technology at a sta...
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Your Undivided Attention
In this podcast from the Center for Humane Technology, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin expose how social media’s race for attention manipulates our choices, breaks down truth, and des...
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20 of 167 episodesWe Measure What AI Can Do. We Should Measure What It Does to Us.
With AI, what gets measured gets optimized. Right now, that's AI capability, not human wellbeing. In this episode, Aza Raskin talks with res...
Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle.
It feels like we're stuck in an endless debate about what AI will mean for jobs and the economy. Caught in the middle of this debate are act...
Can AI Be Built in Service of Life? A Conversation with Krista Tippett
This week, we're bringing you a conversation that Tristan had with Krista Tippett, the Peabody Award-winning host of the On Being podcast. I...
“Magnifica Humanitas:” Pope Leo’s Clarion Call on AI
In this episode, Tristan and Aza discuss what it was like for Tristan to be at the Vatican ahead of the Pope’s encyclical on AI, why this is...
We Need AI Treaties. This is How We Get Them
To agree to international AI red lines, we need to build the technology that makes it possible to adhere to them. In this episode, Tristan s...
What Do We Mean by Humane Tech?
In this episode, Aza Raskin and fellow CHT co-founder Randy Fernando walk through CHT's Seven Principles of Humane Technology. For each one,...
Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?
The critical infrastructure of our world is digital. So what happens when an AI company creates a skeleton key for the internet? In this epi...
AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure
"AI will cure cancer" is the promise driving the race to superintelligence. But what if it's a false promise being used to justify an unfett...
Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?
Our guest this week is David Dalrymple, who goes by Davidad. Davidad is one of the world's foremost and early researchers of AI “alignment:"...
BONUS: Our AI Town Hall with Oprah Winfrey
Today on the show, we’re bringing you a recent conversation Tristan and Aza had with Oprah Winfrey on her podcast, The Oprah Podcast , taped...
Here’s Our Roadmap to a Better AI Future
In order to shift the incentives of AI — the trillions of dollars in investment, the race to geopolitical power and dominance — it’s not eno...
Why the Meta Verdicts Are a Big Deal (And What It Was Like to Testify)
In two landmark cases, juries in California and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for creating addictive, harmful products and failing...
A Conversation with the Team Behind "The AI Doc"
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist” opens in theaters across the U.S. this Friday, March 27. In this episode, we sit down with t...
AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.
The promise of AI in education is incredible: picture infinitely patient tutors that can teach every student exactly the way they need to be...
The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos
This week on Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World...
FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger
This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re bringing you Aza Raskin’s conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger on their podcast “Poss...
Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis
Therapy and companionship has become the #1 use case for AI, with millions worldwide sharing their innermost thoughts with AI systems — ofte...
What Would It Take to Actually Trust Each Other? The Game Theory Dilemma
So much of our world today can be summed up in the cold logic of “if I don’t, they will.” This is the foundation of game theory, which holds...
America and China Are Racing to Different AI Futures
Is the US really in an AI race with China—or are we racing toward completely different finish lines? In this episode, Tristan Harris sits do...