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Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis
Your Undivided Attention - April 11, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSuicides. 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 Jo...
Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller
Your Undivided Attention - March 29, 2024 23:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsBeneath 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. Correction: The latest available Nvidia chip is the Hopper H100 GPU, which has 80 billion transistors. Since the fir...
Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang
Your Undivided Attention - February 29, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish? Just in time for election season, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss healthy information ecosystems, resilience t...
U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?
Your Undivided Attention - February 13, 2024 22:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWas it political progress, or just 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 of experts, including Facebook whistleblower France...
Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet
Your Undivided Attention - February 01, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOver the past year, a tsunami of apps that digitally strip the clothes off real people has hit the market. Now anyone can create fake non-consensual sexual images in just a few clicks. With cases proliferating in high schools, guest presenter Laurie Segall talks to legal scholar Mary Anne Franks...
Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei
Your Undivided Attention - January 18, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWe usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more... magical. So, what can myth and magic teach us about the AI race? Josh Schrei, mythologist and host of ...
How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller
Your Undivided Attention - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode of Your Undivided Attention, two experts give us a situation report on how AI will increase the risks to our elections and our...
2023 Ask Us Anything
Your Undivided Attention - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsYou asked, we answered. This has been a big year in the world of tech, with the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, acceleration of neurotechnology, and continued ethical missteps of social media. Looking back on 2023, there are still so many questions on our minds, and we know you h...
The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish
Your Undivided Attention - November 21, 2023 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAs AI development races forward, a fierce debate has emerged over open source AI models. So what does it mean to open-source AI? Are we opening Pandora’s box of catastrophic risks? Or is open-sourcing AI the only way we can democratize its benefits and dilute the power of big tech? Correction:...
A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler
Your Undivided Attention - November 02, 2023 04:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOn Monday, Oct. 30, President Biden released a sweeping executive order that addresses many risks of artificial intelligence. Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, shares his insights on the order with Tristan and Aza and discusses what’s next in the push toward ...
No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Your Undivided Attention - October 26, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn this interview, Dr. Joy Buolamwini argues that algorithmic bias in AI systems poses risks to marginalized people. She challenges the assumptions of tech leaders who advocate for AI “alignment” and explains why some tech companies are hypocritical when it comes to addressing bias. Dr. Joy Bu...
Mustafa Suleyman Says We Need to Contain AI. How Do We Do It?
Your Undivided Attention - September 28, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThis is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species, says Mustafa Suleyman, author of “The Coming Wave,” CEO of Inflection AI, and founder of Google’s DeepMind. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that...
Inside the First AI Insight Forum in Washington
Your Undivided Attention - September 19, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsLast week, Senator Chuck Schumer brought together Congress and many of the biggest names in AI for the first closed-door AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. Tristan and Aza were invited speakers at the event, along with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, and other leaders. In this update on ...
Spotlight on AI: What Would It Take For This to Go Well?
Your Undivided Attention - September 12, 2023 00:15 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhere do the top Silicon Valley AI researchers really think AI is headed? Do they have a plan if things go wrong? In this episode, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin reflect on the last several months of highlighting AI risk, and share their insider takes on a high-level workshop run by CHT in Sili...
The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao
Your Undivided Attention - August 31, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn the debate over slowing down AI, we often hear the same argument against regulation. “What about China? We can’t let China get ahead.” To dig into the nuances of this argument, Tristan and Aza speak with academic researcher Jeffrey Ding and journalist Karen Hao, who take us through what’s r...
Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy
Your Undivided Attention - August 17, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFor all the talk about AI, we rarely hear about how it will change our relationships. As we swipe to find love and consult chatbot therapists, acclaimed psychotherapist and relationship expert Esther Perel warns that there’s another harmful “AI” on the rise — Artificial Intimacy — and how it is ...
Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany
Your Undivided Attention - August 03, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWe are on the cusp of an explosion of cheap, consumer-ready neurotechnology - from earbuds that gather our behavioral data, to sensors that can read our dreams. And it’s all going to be supercharged by AI. This technology is moving from niche to mainstream - and it has the same potential to be...
Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett
Your Undivided Attention - July 21, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSocial media was humanity’s ‘first contact’ moment with AI. If we’re going to create laws that are strong enough to prevent AI from destroying our societies, we could benefit from taking a look at the major lawsuits against social media platforms that are playing out in our courts right now. In...
Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss
Your Undivided Attention - July 06, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn the next two episodes of Your Undivided Attention, we take a close look at two respective industries: big food and social media, which represent dangerous “races to the bottom” and have big parallels with AI. And we are asking: what can our past mistakes and missed opportunities teach us a...
What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio
Your Undivided Attention - June 22, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhat happens when creators consider what lifelong human development looks like in terms of the tools we make? And what philosophies from Sesame Street can inform how to steward the power of AI and social media to influence minds in thoughtful, humane directions? When the first episode of Sesame...
Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society
Your Undivided Attention - June 08, 2023 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsYou’re likely familiar with the modern zombie trope: a zombie bites someone you care about and they’re transformed into a creature who wants your brain. Zombies are the perfect metaphor to explain something Tristan and Aza have been thinking about lately that they call zombie values. In this Sp...
Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher
Your Undivided Attention - June 02, 2023 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThere’s really no one better than veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at challenging people to articulate their thinking. Tristan Harrris recently sat down with her for a wide ranging interview on AI risk. She even pressed Tristan on whether he is a doomsday prepper. It was so great, we wanted ...
The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth
Your Undivided Attention - May 25, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDemocracy in action has looked the same for generations. Constituents might go to a library or school every one or two years and cast their vote for people who don't actually represent everything that they care about. Our technology is rapidly increasing in sophistication, yet our forms of democ...
Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions
Your Undivided Attention - May 11, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsA few episodes back, we presented Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s talk The AI Dilemma. People inside the companies that are building generative artificial intelligence came to us with their concerns about the rapid pace of deployment and the problems that are emerging as a result. We felt called...
Talking With Animals… Using AI
Your Undivided Attention - May 04, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDespite our serious concerns about the pace of deployment of generative artificial intelligence, we are not anti-AI. There are uses that can help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. Your Undivided Attention co-host Aza Raskin is also co-founder of Earth Species Project, a non...
Can We Govern AI?
Your Undivided Attention - April 21, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsWhen it comes to AI, what kind of regulations might we need to address this rapidly developing new class of technologies? What makes regulating AI and runaway tech in general different from regulating airplanes, pharmaceuticals, or food? And how can we ensure that issues like national security d...
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...
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