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Center for Humane Technology

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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A New Way to Measure AI Safety for Kids

Imran Khan sits down with Mathilde Collin, founder of Kora, the world’s leading benchmark for how AI models interact with children, about ho...

00:35:08Oct 22, 2026

An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President

In 1986, Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavik for an informal conversation that made nuclear coordination imaginable. 40 years later, world...

00:44:47Oct 16, 2026

The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI

It’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. In this episode, Tristan shares how he’s feeling in this critical moment, breaks down the headlines f...

00:20:51Sep 17, 2026

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...

00:59:19Sep 10, 2026

We 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...

00:47:17Aug 27, 2026

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...

00:57:40Aug 13, 2026

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...

00:53:47Jul 16, 2026

“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...

00:30:48Jul 2, 2026

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...

00:51:20Jun 18, 2026

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,...

00:52:18Jun 4, 2026

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...

00:46:39May 14, 2026

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...

00:47:09Apr 30, 2026

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:"...

00:42:37Apr 16, 2026

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...

01:01:13Apr 9, 2026

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...

00:52:14Apr 2, 2026

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...

00:19:48Mar 26, 2026

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...

00:47:56Mar 23, 2026

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...

00:46:15Mar 5, 2026

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...

00:37:16Feb 19, 2026

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...

01:07:25Feb 5, 2026