Your Undivided Attention

Your Undivided Attention

The Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin

Episodes 161
Avg. Duration 43m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (1,688)
Since Apr 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Join co-hosts Tristan Harris and 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. Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.

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What Do We Mean by Humane Tech?

Jun 04, 2026 52m

We often think of the challenges created by technology as separate and disconnected, so trying to solve them feels like playing the world's hardest game of Whac-A-Mole.  What if, instead, we tackled…

Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?

May 14, 2026 46m

A generation ago, the world's critical infrastructure was physical. Today, it’s largely digital. Your bank vault is a database, your filing cabinet is a server, your car is a robot on wheels. And in…

AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure

Apr 30, 2026 47m

One of the most common arguments you hear from company executives racing to develop super-intelligent AI is that it will cure cancer. It’s an incredibly powerful and seductive promise.  If…

Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?

Apr 16, 2026 42m

Our guest this week is David Dalrymple, who goes by Davidad. Davidad is one of the world's foremost and early researchers of AI “alignment:" how we get AI systems to act the way we want them to. In…

BONUS: Our AI Town Hall with Oprah Winfrey

Apr 09, 2026 1h 1m Bonus

Today on the show, we’re bringing you a recent conversation Tristan and Aza had with Oprah Winfrey on her podcast, The Oprah Podcast, taped in front of a live studio audience. Tristan and Aza first…

Here’s Our Roadmap to a Better AI Future

Apr 02, 2026 52m

In order to shift the incentives of AI — the trillions of dollars in investment, the race to geopolitical power and dominance — it’s not enough to simply understand the problem, we need real…

Why the Meta Verdicts Are a Big Deal (And What It Was Like to Testify)

Mar 26, 2026 19m

In two landmark cases, juries in California and New Mexico found Meta and Google liable for creating addictive, harmful products and failing to protect children from exploitation and abuse. These…

A Conversation with the Team Behind "The AI Doc"

Mar 23, 2026 47m

“The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist” opens in theaters across the U.S. this Friday, March 27. In this episode, we sit down with the team behind this groundbreaking documentary —…

AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.

Mar 05, 2026 46m

The promise of AI in education is incredible: picture infinitely patient tutors that can teach every student exactly the way they need to be taught. But the history of education technology tells us…

The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

Feb 19, 2026 37m

This week on Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power…

FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

Feb 05, 2026 1h 7m

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re bringing you Aza Raskin’s conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger on their podcast “Possible”. Reid and Aria are both tech entrepreneurs: Reid is…

Attachment Hacking and the Rise of AI Psychosis

Jan 21, 2026 50m

Therapy and companionship has become the #1 use case for AI, with millions worldwide sharing their innermost thoughts with AI systems — often things they wouldn't tell loved ones or human therapists.…

What Would It Take to Actually Trust Each Other? The Game Theory Dilemma

Jan 08, 2026 45m

So much of our world today can be summed up in the cold logic of “if I don’t, they will.” This is the foundation of game theory, which holds that cooperation and virtue are irrational; that all that…

America and China Are Racing to Different AI Futures

Dec 18, 2025 57m

Is the US really in an AI race with China—or are we racing toward completely different finish lines?In this episode, Tristan Harris sits down with China experts Selina Xu and Matt Sheehan to separate…

AI and the Future of Work: What You Need to Know

Dec 04, 2025 45m

No matter where you sit within the economy, whether you're a CEO or an entry level worker, everyone's feeling uneasy about AI and the future of work. Uncertainty about career paths, job security, and…

Feed Drop: "Into the Machine" with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Nov 13, 2025 1h 4m

This week, we’re bringing you Tristan’s conversation with Tobias Rose-Stockwell on his podcast “Into the Machine.”  Tobias is a designer, writer, and technologist and the author of the book “The…

What if we had fixed social media?

Nov 06, 2025 16m Bonus

We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual Ask Us Anything episode. There was one question that kept coming up: what might a different world look like? The broken incentives…

Ask Us Anything 2025

Oct 23, 2025 40m

It's been another big year in AI. The AI race has accelerated to breakneck speed, with frontier labs pouring hundreds of billions into increasingly powerful models—each one smarter, faster, and more…

The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Matters for AI

Sep 11, 2025 51m

In 1985, scientists in Antarctica discovered a hole in the ozone layer that posed a catastrophic threat to life on earth if we didn’t do something about it. Then, something amazing happened: humanity…

How OpenAI's ChatGPT Guided a Teen to His Death

Aug 26, 2025 45m

Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide and self-harm. Like millions of kids, 16-year-old Adam Raine started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. Over the next few months,…

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