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Your Undivided Attention

Your Undivided Attention

De: Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin The Center for Humane Technology
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Join us every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by Senior Producer Julia Scott and Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.2019-2025 Center for Humane Technology Ciencia Política Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno Relaciones
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  • AI is the Next Free Speech Battleground
    Jul 31 2025

    Imagine a future where the most persuasive voices in our society aren't human. Where AI generated speech fills our newsfeeds, talks to our children, and influences our elections. Where digital systems with no consciousness can hold bank accounts and property. Where AI companies have transferred the wealth of human labor and creativity to their own ledgers without having to pay a cent. All without any legal accountability.

    This isn't a science fiction scenario. It’s the future we’re racing towards right now. The biggest tech companies are working right now to tip the scale of power in society away from humans and towards their AI systems. And the biggest arena for this fight is in the courts.

    In the absence of regulation, it's largely up to judges to determine the guardrails around AI. Judges who are relying on slim technical knowledge and archaic precedent to decide where this all goes. In this episode, Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig and Meetali Jain, director of the Tech Justice Law Project help make sense of the court’s role in steering AI and what we can do to help steer it better.

    Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_. You can find a full transcript, key takeaways, and much more on our Substack.

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    “The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants” by Larry Lessig

    More information on the Tech Justice Law Project

    Further reading on Sewell Setzer’s story

    Further reading on NYT v. Sullivan

    Further reading on the Citizens United case

    Further reading on Google’s deal with Character AI

    More information on Megan Garcia’s foundation, The Blessed Mother Family Foundation

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    The AI Dilemma

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  • Daniel Kokotajlo Forecasts the End of Human Dominance
    Jul 17 2025

    In 2023, researcher Daniel Kokotajlo left OpenAI—and risked millions in stock options—to warn the world about the dangerous direction of AI development. Now he’s out with AI 2027, a forecast of where that direction might take us in the very near future.

    AI 2027 predicts a world where humans lose control over our destiny at the hands of misaligned, super-intelligent AI systems within just the next few years. That may sound like science fiction but when you’re living on the upward slope of an exponential curve, science fiction can quickly become all too real. And you don’t have to agree with Daniel’s specific forecast to recognize that the incentives around AI could take us to a very bad place.

    We invited Daniel on the show this week to discuss those incentives, how they shape the outcomes he predicts in AI 2027, and what concrete steps we can take today to help prevent those outcomes.

    Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_. You can find a full transcript, key takeaways, and much more on our Substack.

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    The AI 2027 forecast from the AI Futures Project

    Daniel’s original AI 2026 blog post

    Further reading on Daniel’s departure from OpenAI

    Anthropic recently released a survey of all the recent emergent misalignment research

    Our statement in support of Sen. Grassley’s AI Whistleblower bill

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    The Narrow Path: Sam Hammond on AI, Institutions, and the Fragile Future
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    The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive

    Clarification: Daniel K. referred to whistleblower protections that apply when companies “break promises” or “mislead the public.” There are no specific private sector whistleblower protections that use these standards. In almost every case, a specific law has to have been broken to trigger whistleblower protections.


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  • Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? with Prof. Michael Sandel
    Jun 26 2025

    Tech leaders promise that AI automation will usher in an age of unprecedented abundance: cheap goods, universal high income, and freedom from the drudgery of work. But even if AI delivers material prosperity, will that prosperity be shared? And what happens to human dignity if our labor and contributions become obsolete?

    Political philosopher Michael Sandel joins Tristan Harris to explore why the promise of AI-driven abundance could deepen inequalities and leave our society hollow. Drawing from his landmark work on justice and merit, Sandel argues that this isn't just about economics — it's about what it means to be human when our work role in society vanishes, and whether democracy can survive if productivity becomes our only goal.

    We've seen this story before with globalization: promises of shared prosperity that instead hollowed out the industrial heart of communities, economic inequalities, and left holes in the social fabric. Can we learn from the past, and steer the AI revolution in a more humane direction?

    Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_. You can find a full transcript, key takeaways, and much more on our Substack.

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    The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel

    Democracy’s Discontent by Michael Sandel

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    Take Michael’s online course “Justice”

    Michael’s discussion on AI Ethics at the World Economic Forum

    Further reading on “The Intelligence Curse”

    Read the full text of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 speech

    Read the full text of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 speech

    Neil Postman’s lecture on the seven questions to ask of any new technology

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    AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us with Daron Acemoglu

    Mustafa Suleyman Says We Need to Contain AI. How Do We Do It?

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This is a powerful “marriage” of insightful questioning and deep expertise. I could feel my IQ going up. 😉

Head Blown!

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Thinking back over the past ten years our lives have been consistently nudged by a small group of elite business people living on the west coast of Northern California. Driven by a need to maximize returns for capital investors and employee stockholders, these people stitched the disparate lives of citizens around the globe of many countries and states into expansive for-profit social networks. Now the threads tying billions of people into these social networks tug us in directions known and unknown, but primarily away from patience, presence, connection, and toward outrage, polarization and consumerism. While the effects of these trends on our individual and collective psychology have been rarely noticed and generally neglected until now, a growing movement has begun to pull back the curtain. We are angry with the manipulation, and intent on fixing it.

This podcast serially lays out in no uncertain terms the magnitude of the issue and possible paths forward. With guests who number among the most active and influential whistleblowers on this topic, it has become a comprehensive and inspiring guide to reclaiming our freedom in the digital space. Even beyond, it lays out various competing theories for constructing a socially, economically, and politically fair society that elevates human strengths instead of exploiting human weakness.

I Wish This Was Played In Schools

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This analytical summary shifted my consciousness. This format is so helpful. We should name and characterize this presentation format. I THINK THIS IS THE METHOD TO ENABLE PARALLEL learning and legislation. Thank You, Ben

Parallel Learning Legislation

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