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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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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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Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet
Ninety-six percent of deep-faked images and videos are sexually explicit and non-consensual. Legal scholar Mary Anne Franks and journalist Laurie Segall discuss the AI-enabled rise in deep fake porn, and what we can do about it.
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Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei
What can tales of mythology and magic teach us about the AI race? Mythologist Josh Schrei explains how looking at foundational cultural stories could guide ethical tech development.
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Congratulations - and - Time to move to Specific Dangers
Congratulations. If only this level of conversation had been around before the Social Media giants got away with avoiding publisher responsibility for content, we might have avoided the worst downsides.
And …. What I would really welcome now is a shift in focus toward discussing specific dangers and risks. What do experts in the field believe are the most imminent and serious dangers and risks? And then, how to we regulate to reduce these risks.
Great topics, approach needs working on
While the topics the hosts are sending are of extreme importance, I find that in recent months the delivery method has become somewhat unhealthy. From passionate young men interested in the betterment of technology, the hosts now have moved on to a very pessimistic view, to a somewhat paranoid approach of the topic. Pointing out everything that is wrong in the world can only take you so far. Feels like they are stuck at step 1 - raising awareness on the issues, but then failing to move further and initiate action. It probably needs a personal reassessment, taking a break and reviewing what they stand for more than what they stand against, what the future technology should look like rather than what it should not be, less fear-mongering more thinking from a loving ‘we can do this, let’s figure out how’ type of a perspective. This way the mental health issues Tristan has mentioned struggling with and recent somewhat pessimistic demeanour would change, leading to additional energy and vitality that could be put towards his reaching goal.