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Your Undivided Attention Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
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In our podcast, Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into 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 — like Audrey Tang on digital democracy, neurotechnology with Nita Farahany, getting beyond dystopia with Yuval Noah Harari, and Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy: the other AI.
Your Undivided Attention is produced by Executive Editor Sasha Fegan and Senior Producer Julia Scott. Our Associate Producers are Sara McCrea and Kirsten McMurray. We are a top tech podcast worldwide with more than 20 million downloads and a member of the TED Audio Collective.
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War is a Laboratory for AI with Paul Scharre
Today’s battlefields have become laboratories for the use of AI weaponry and drones. From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with increasing levels of autonomy are being used to kill people and destroy infrastructure. So what does this mean for the future of warfare? Author and former Pentagon policymaker Paul Scharre joins the show to discuss.
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AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu
Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital revolution, that’s not what happened. Can we do better this time around?
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Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis
Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case that the conditions that led to today’s teenage mental health crisis can be turned around – with specific, achievable actions we all can take starting today.
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Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller
Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make sure they win AI supremacy.
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Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang
Is there a vision of our future where AI can help our democracies thrive, rather than just survive? With election season underway, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss how to create a resilient democracy in the age of AI.
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U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?
Was it political progress, or political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments — including Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to families who lost children following social media abuse. Our panel untangles the explosive hearing, and what might come next.
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Excellent and very important podcast
I love this podcast, it dives deeper into some issues discussed in The Social Dilemma, but also explores completely new ones, and always in a really interesting and entertaining way.
Always high quality guests, always high quality conversations, it's really excellent. Tristan and Aza are some of the most intelligent and wise people I've ever seen on the internet, they're always deftly avoiding simplistic, petty or naive answers to difficult questions, they're always going deeper to find nuance and sense-making.
I think Your Undivided Attention is so valuable because it provides a low-threshold, easy to understand window on the most urgent and complex issues of our time. In that sense Tristan and Aza are really educating the public about what truly matters, and we need people like that.
One of the big problems we have these days, and this is both a consequence and a cause of other, bigger problems, is that most people really misunderstand what's important and what isn't when it comes to the general organisation of society. Most people fail to see the incredible importance of the way technology is reshaping everything we do. Your Undivided Attention is on the forefront to solve that problem.
Lastly, this podcast is especially valuable because of the new terms it introduces to describe the technological problems of our time. Some of them are already mentioned in The Social Dilemma, like attention economy, outragification, and so on. But there are so many new ones too: infrastructure for automated sociopathy, artificial social reciprocity, people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, amplification transparency and liability, and so on.
This is part of a necessary linguistic shift, in which we give new names to new evils because talking about them in outdated terms doesn't do them justice. Thank you to Tristan and Aza for driving this linguistic (and cultural) shift.
Thank you.
A great podcast to learn about the impacts of our digita world
One of my favorite shows. This podcast helps better understand the implications of our current digital transformation, its understated risks, and also the overlooked efforts of countless people who use digital tools to make the world a better place for all humans.