Latest Humane design Podcast Episodes
Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech
Your Undivided Attention - April 06, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn our previous episode, we shared a presentation Tristan and Aza recently delivered to a group of influential technologists about the race happening in AI. In that talk, they introduced the Three Rules of Humane Technology. In this Spotlight episode, we’re taking a moment to explore these three...
The AI Dilemma
Your Undivided Attention - March 24, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsYou may have heard about the arrival of GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest large language model (LLM) release. GPT-4 surpasses its predecessor in terms of reliability, creativity, and ability to process intricate instructions. It can handle more nuanced prompts compared to previous releases, and is multimod...
TikTok’s Transparency Problem
Your Undivided Attention - March 02, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsA few months ago on Your Undivided Attention, we released a Spotlight episode on TikTok's national security risks. Since then, we've learned more about the dangers of the China-owned company: We've seen evidence of TikTok spying on US journalists, and proof of hidden state media accounts to infl...
Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake
Your Undivided Attention - February 16, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIt may seem like the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasingly powerful large language models you may have heard of, is moving really fast… and it IS. But what’s coming next is when we enter synthetic relationships with AI that could come to feel just as real and important as our human...
The Race to Cooperation
Your Undivided Attention - February 02, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIt’s easy to tell ourselves we’re living in the world we want – one where Darwinian evolution drives competing technology platforms and capitalism pushes nations to maximize GDP regardless of externalities like carbon emissions. It can feel like evolution and competition are all there is. If th...
Ask Us Anything: You Asked, We Answered
Your Undivided Attention - December 29, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWelcome to our first-ever Ask Us Anything episode. Recently we put out a call for questions… and, wow, did you come through! We got more than 100 responses from listeners to this podcast from all over the world. It was really fun going through them all, and really difficult to choose which ones ...
Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?
Your Undivided Attention - December 15, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhen you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies like synthetic bio...
Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen
Your Undivided Attention - November 23, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhen it comes to social media risk, there is reason to hope for consensus. Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris recently helped launch a new initiative called the Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM) in Washington, D.C. It’s a coalition between religious leaders, public ...
Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes'
Your Undivided Attention - November 10, 2022 22:53 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe weekly American news show 60 Minutes invited Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris back recently to discuss political polarization and the anger and incivility that gets elevated on social media as a matter of corporate profit. We're releasing a special episode of Your Undiv...
Spotlight — Elon, Twitter and the Gladiator Arena
Your Undivided Attention - October 27, 2022 18:21 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSince it’s looking more and more like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will probably soon have ownership of Twitter, we wanted to do a special episode about what this could mean for Twitter users and our global digital democracy as a whole. Twitter is a very complicated place. It is routinel...
They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig
Your Undivided Attention - October 20, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWe often talk about the need to protect American democracy. But perhaps those of us in the United States don't currently live in a democracy. As research shows, there's pretty much no correlation between the percentage of the population that supports a policy and its likelihood of being enacted...
Stepping Into the Metaverse — with Dr. Courtney Cogburn and Prof. Jeremy Bailenson
Your Undivided Attention - October 06, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe next frontier of the internet is the metaverse. That's why Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta, and just sold $10 billion in corporate bonds to raise money for metaverse-related projects. How might we learn from our experience with social media, and anticip...
Fighting With Mirages of Each Other — with Adam Mastroianni
Your Undivided Attention - September 22, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHave you ever lost a friend to misperception? Have you lost a friend or a family member to the idea that your views got so different, that it was time to end the relationship — perhaps by unfriending each other on Facebook? As it turns out, we often think our ideological differences are far gre...
Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat
Your Undivided Attention - September 08, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsImagine it's the Cold War. Imagine that the Soviet Union puts itself in a position to influence the television programming of the entire Western world — more than a billion viewers. While this might sound like science fiction, it’s representative of the world we're living in, with TikTok being...
Bonus – Addressing the TikTok Threat
Your Undivided Attention - September 08, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsImagine it's the Cold War. Imagine that the Soviet Union puts itself in a position to influence the television programming of the entire Western world — more than a billion viewers. While this might sound like science fiction, it’s representative of the world we're living in, with TikTok being...
Spotlight — How might a long-term stock market transform tech?
Your Undivided Attention - August 25, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAt Center for Humane Technology, we often talk about multipolar traps — which arise when individuals have an incentive to act in ways that are beneficial to them in the short term, but detrimental to the group in the long term. Think of social media companies that compete for our attention, so t...
Bonus — How might a long-term stock market transform tech? (ZigZag episode)
Your Undivided Attention - August 25, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAt Center for Humane Technology, we often talk about multipolar traps — which arise when individuals have an incentive to act in ways that are beneficial to them in the short term, but detrimental to the group in the long term. Think of social media companies that compete for our attention, so t...
The Invisible Cyber-War
Your Undivided Attention - August 04, 2022 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhen you hear the word cyber-attack, what comes to mind? Someone hacking into your email, or stealing your Facebook password? As it turns out, our most critical infrastructure can be hacked. Our banks, water treatment facilities, and nuclear power plants can be deactivated and even controlled s...
An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns
Your Undivided Attention - June 30, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhy isn't Twitter doing more to get bots off their platform? Why isn’t Uber taking better care of its drivers? What if...they can't? Venture-capital backed companies like Twitter and Uber are held accountable to maximizing returns to investors. If and when they become public companies, they b...
Feed Drop — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron
Your Undivided Attention - June 16, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThis week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio Collective. Backing up for a moment: we recently aired an episode with Dylan Marron — creator and host of the podcast, Conversations With People W...
Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron
Your Undivided Attention - June 16, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThis week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio Collective. Backing up for a moment: we recently aired an episode with Dylan Marron — creator and host of the podcast, Conversations With People W...
Bonus — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron
Your Undivided Attention - June 16, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThis week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio Collective. Backing up for a moment: we recently aired an episode with Dylan Marron — creator and host of the podcast, Conversations With People W...
How Political Language Is Engineered — with Frank Luntz and Drew Westen
Your Undivided Attention - June 02, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDemocracy depends on our ability to choose our political views. But the language we use to talk about political issues is deliberately designed to be divisive, and can produce up to a 15-point difference in what we think about those issues. As a result, are we choosing our views, or is our langu...
How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz
Your Undivided Attention - June 02, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDemocracy depends on our ability to choose our political views. But the language we use to talk about political issues is deliberately designed to be divisive, and can produce up to a 15-point difference in what we think about those issues. As a result, are we choosing our views, or is our langu...
Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron
Your Undivided Attention - May 19, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe game that social media sets us up to play is a game that rewards outrage. It's a game that we win by being better than other players at dunking on each other, straw-manning each other, and assuming the worst in each other. The game itself must be transformed. And, we can also decide to step...
How To Free Our Minds with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan
Your Undivided Attention - May 05, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHow would you know if you were in a cult? If not a cult, then at least under undue influence? The truth is: we're all under some form of undue influence. The question is: to what degree and to what extent we’re aware of this influence — which is exacerbated by social media. In an era of likes...
How To Free Our Minds — with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan
Your Undivided Attention - May 05, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHow would you know if you were in a cult? If not a cult, then at least under undue influence? The truth is: we're all under some form of undue influence. The question is: to what degree and to what extent we’re aware of this influence — which is exacerbated by social media. In an era of likes...
Spotlight — A Bigger Picture on Elon & Twitter
Your Undivided Attention - April 26, 2022 00:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIf Elon Musk owns Twitter, what are the risks and what are the opportunities? In order for Twitter to support democracy — and Musk’s goal of becoming a multi-planetary civilization — we need a radical redesign that goes beyond free speech. Note: this conversation was recorded on April 21, 2022...
Bonus – A Bigger Picture on Elon & Twitter
Your Undivided Attention - April 26, 2022 00:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIf Elon Musk owns Twitter, what are the risks and what are the opportunities? In order for Twitter to support democracy — and Musk’s goal of becoming a multi-planetary civilization — we need a radical redesign that goes beyond free speech. Note: this conversation was recorded on April 21, 2022...
What Is Civil War in the Digital Age?
Your Undivided Attention - April 21, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsCivil war might be the most likely escalation pathway towards disaster for our country. On the flip side, learning how to avoid civil conflict — and more ambitiously, repair our civic fabric — might have the greatest leverage for addressing the challenges we face. Our guest Barbara F. Walter is...
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