A.I. Doomsday with Tristan Harris

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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After Kara and Nayeema review the week’s A.I. news, including Sam Altman’s Senate testimony and the viral AI-generated image of the Pentagon in flames, we turn to Tristan Harris — co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and a key voice among the calls for slowing down the A.I. arms race. BTW, do you have any burning questions on career, love or life you’d like Kara or Nayeema’s advice on? If so, call 1-888-KARA-PLZ and leave us a voice mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York Magazine in the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:10.4	I'm Ron DeSantis with a face for Twitter Spaces.
0:13.9	Just kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.
0:17.1	And I'm Neymaraza, that's not so nice, Kara, don't we have faces for radio?
0:21.4	Guess what?
0:22.4	I wasn't meaning to be nice.
0:24.4	Ah, Kara.
0:25.4	So mean.
0:26.4	Anyways, we're not going to focus on Elon today or on Ron DeSantis, we have much bigger
0:29.4	things to talk about, like artificial intelligence.
0:32.1	But explain very quickly what's going on with this Twitter Proclamation, his announcement.
0:36.0	It's interesting that they're doing this, of course they're trying to pretend the media
0:40.0	is losing its mind, it isn't really, it's interesting.
0:42.1	Ron DeSantis is going to announce on mainstream media that he's running out of his announcement
0:45.3	with Elon and David Sachs.
0:47.3	Yeah, that's fine.
0:48.3	Whatever, good luck guys, good luck making media.
0:50.5	They want to make it into like media so mad and they're not, it's an interesting stunt.
0:54.5	We'll see if it works.
0:55.9	They've been doing presidential announcements the same way forever.
0:59.5	This is good for Elon Musk only because he's trying to build that as we talked about extensively,
1:04.1	a media company, that's his effort, and good luck, good luck, media is hard and it's
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