Your Undivided Attention

Technology companies are locked in an arms race to seize your attention, and that race is tearing apart our shared social fabric. In this inaugural podcast from the Center for Humane Technology, hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin will expose the hidden designs that have the power to hijack our attention, manipulate our choices and destabilize our real world communities. They’ll explore what it means to become sophisticated about human nature, by interviewing hypnotists, magicians, experts on the dynamics of cults and election hacking and the powers of persuasion. How can we escape this unrelenting race to the bottom of the brain stem? Start by subscribing to our new series, Your Undivided Attention.

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? with Prof. Michael Sandel

Tech leaders promise that AI automation will usher in an age of unprecedented abundance: cheap goods,...

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The Narrow Path: Sam Hammond on AI, Institutions, and the Fragile Future

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

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People are Lonelier than Ever. Enter AI.

Over the last few decades, our relationships have become increasingly mediated by technology. Texting...

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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection

AI companion chatbots are here. Everyday, millions of people log on to AI platforms and talk to them...

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AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?

What does it really mean to ‘feel the AGI?’ Silicon Valley is racing toward AI systems that could...

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Rethinking School in the Age of AI

AI has upended schooling as we know it. Students now have instant access to tools that can write their...

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Forever Chemicals, Forever Consequences: What PFAS Teaches Us About AI

Artificial intelligence is set to unleash an explosion of new technologies and discoveries into the...

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Weaponizing Uncertainty: How Tech is Recycling Big Tobacco’s Playbook

One of the hardest parts about being human today is navigating uncertainty. When we see experts battling...

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The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking

Few thinkers were as prescient about the role technology would play in our society as the late, great...

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Behind the DeepSeek Hype, AI is Learning to Reason

When Chinese AI company DeepSeek announced they had built a model that could compete with OpenAI at...

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The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive

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

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Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech

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

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Ask Us Anything 2024

2024 was a critical year in both AI and social media. Things moved so fast it was hard to keep up. So...

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The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics

Silicon Valley's interest in AI is driven by more than just profit and innovation. There’s an unmistakable...

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What Can We Do About Abusive Chatbots? With Meetali Jain and Camille Carlton

CW: This episode features discussion of suicide and sexual abuse. In the last episode, we had the journalist...

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When the "Person" Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide, self-harm, and sexual abuse.Megan Garcia...

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Is It AI? One Tool to Tell What’s Real with Truemedia.org CEO Oren Etzioni

Social media disinformation did enormous damage to our shared idea of reality. Now, the rise of generative...

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'A Turning Point in History': Yuval Noah Harari on AI’s Cultural Takeover

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

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‘We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI

It’s a confusing moment in AI. Depending on who you ask, we’re either on the fast track to AI that’s...

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AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too.

AI is moving fast. And as companies race to rollout newer, more capable models–with little regard...

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Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy

[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] For all the talk about AI, we rarely hear about how...

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Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins

Today, the tech industry is  the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t...

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This Moment in AI: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

It’s been a year and half since Tristan and Aza laid out their vision and concerns for the future...

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Decoding Our DNA: How AI Supercharges Medical Breakthroughs and Biological Threats with Kevin Esvelt

AI has been a powerful accelerant for biological research, rapidly opening up new frontiers in medicine...

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