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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...

One of the most common arguments you hear from company executives racing to develop super-intelligent AI is that it will cure cancer. It’s a...

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:"...

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...

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...

In two landmark cases, juries in California and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for creating addictive, harmful products and failing...

“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...

The promise of AI in education is incredible: picture infinitely patient tutors that can teach every student exactly the way they need to be...

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...

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re bringing you Aza Raskin’s conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger on their podcast “Poss...

Therapy and companionship has become the #1 use case for AI, with millions worldwide sharing their innermost thoughts with AI systems — ofte...

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...

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...

No matter where you sit within the economy, whether you're a CEO or an entry level worker, everyone's feeling uneasy about AI and the future...

This week, we’re bringing you Tristan’s conversation with Tobias Rose-Stockwell on his podcast “Into the Machine.” Tobias is a designer, wri...

We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual Ask Us Anything episode. There was one question that kept coming up: what mig...

It's been another big year in AI. The AI race has accelerated to breakneck speed, with frontier labs pouring hundreds of billions into incre...

In 1985, scientists in Antarctica discovered a hole in the ozone layer that posed a catastrophic threat to life on earth if we didn’t do som...

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide and self-harm. Like millions of kids, 16-year-old Adam Raine started using Chat...

Everyone knows the science fiction tropes of AI systems that go rogue, disobey orders, or even try to escape their digital environment. Thes...

Imagine a future where the most persuasive voices in our society aren't human. Where AI generated speech fills our newsfeeds, talks to our c...

In 2023, researcher Daniel Kokotajlo left OpenAI—and risked millions in stock options—to warn the world about the dangerous direction of AI...

Tech leaders promise that AI automation will usher in an age of unprecedented abundance: cheap goods, universal high income, and freedom fro...

The race to develop ever-more-powerful AI is creating an unstable dynamic. It could lead us toward either dystopian centralized control or u...

Over the last few decades, our relationships have become increasingly mediated by technology. Texting has become our dominant form of commun...

AI companion chatbots are here. Everyday, millions of people log on to AI platforms and talk to them like they would a person. These bots wi...

What does it really mean to ‘ feel the AGI?’ Silicon Valley is racing toward AI systems that could soon match or surpass human intelligence....

AI has upended schooling as we know it. Students now have instant access to tools that can write their essays, summarize entire books, and s...

Artificial intelligence is set to unleash an explosion of new technologies and discoveries into the world. This could lead to incredible adv...

One of the hardest parts about being human today is navigating uncertainty. When we see experts battling in public and emotions running high...

Few thinkers were as prescient about the role technology would play in our society as the late, great Neil Postman. Forty years ago, Postman...

When Chinese AI company DeepSeek announced they had built a model that could compete with OpenAI at a fraction of the cost, it sent shockwav...

When engineers design AI systems, they don't just give them rules - they give them values. But what do those systems do when those values cl...

The status quo of tech today is untenable: we’re addicted to our devices, we’ve become increasingly polarized, our mental health is sufferin...

2024 was a critical year in both AI and social media. Things moved so fast it was hard to keep up. So our hosts reached into their mailbag t...

Silicon Valley's interest in AI is driven by more than just profit and innovation. There’s an unmistakable mystical quality to it as well. I...

CW: This episode features discussion of suicide and sexual abuse. In the last episode, we had the journalist Laurie Segall on to talk about...

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide, self-harm, and sexual abuse. Megan Garcia lost her son Sewell to suicide after...

Social media disinformation did enormous damage to our shared idea of reality. Now, the rise of generative AI has unleashed a flood of high-...

Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI’s ability to generate cultural artifacts threatens...

It’s a confusing moment in AI. Depending on who you ask, we’re either on the fast track to AI that’s smarter than most humans, or the techno...

AI is moving fast. And as companies race to rollout newer, more capable models–with little regard for safety–the downstream risks of those m...

[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] For all the talk about AI, we rarely hear about how it will change our relationships. As...

Today, the tech industry is the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t true as recently as ten years ago. How did...

It’s been a year and half since Tristan and Aza laid out their vision and concerns for the future of artificial intelligence in The AI Dilem...

AI has been a powerful accelerant for biological research, rapidly opening up new frontiers in medicine and public health. But that progress...

Will AI ever start to think by itself? If it did, how would we know, and what would it mean? In this episode, Dr. Anil Seth and Aza discuss...

Climate change, political instability, hunger. These are just some of the forces behind an unprecedented refugee crisis that’s expected to i...

This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading com...

Right now, militaries around the globe are investing heavily in the use of AI weapons and drones. From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with...

Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital revolution, that’s not wh...