Your Undivided Attention
Co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into both our lives and a humane future. Join us every other Thursday as we confront challenges and explore solutions with a wide range of thought leaders and change-makers.
Your Undivided Attention is produced by our Executive Producer Josh Lash and our Senior Producer Julia Scott.
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Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity Behind
Twenty years ago, transhumanism was a fringe belief in Silicon Valley. Today, it shapes the people building and governing AI. Alex Thomas, author of “The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism,” helps us recognize this anti-human vision and counter it with a pro-human one.
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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 how and why she built this tool and what she learned in the process. At a time when two-thirds of US teenagers already use AI chatbots, tools like Kora are vital to making AI truly safer.
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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 leaders gathered in the same room to discuss how we can do the same for AI. Tristan and Aza were there. Listen to their dispatch from Iceland and a conversation with its president.
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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 from an insider's perspective, and points to tangible steps we can take right now to avoid the worst-case scenario.
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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 staggering rate – and they're using it to build out an efficient, centralized surveillance-state apparatus. This week, we speak with two experts about how police are using AI today, what we can expect in the near future, and what protections we need to create now, before it's too late.
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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 researchers Imran Khan & Jared Moore about Humane Evals: CHT's push to measure what AI does to us, not just what it can do.
