Launching June 10: Your Undivided Attention

Your Undivided Attention

Center for Humane Technology

Cht, Tech Podcast, Llms, Machinelearning, Artificial Intelligence, Digitaldemocracy, Best Ai Shows, Ai And Happiness, Meta, Superintelligence, Machines, Elections, Ai History, Ai And Relationships, Infinite Scroll, Responsibleai, Polarization, Tech Politics, Chat Bots, Government, Anthropic, Ai Politics, Sam Altman, Character Ai, Aiandhumanrights, Artificial General Intelligence, Addiction, Daniel Barcay, Ai Personhood, Ai Welfare, Ethical Technology, Center For Humane Technology, Society & Culture, Ai And The Future, The Social Dilemma Netflix, Jon Haidt, Humans, Privacy, Open Ai, Asi, Ai Podcast, Kids And Ai, Tech Policy, Claude, Ai And Rights, Aiinsociety, Surveillance, Ai And Education, Little Tech, Civictech, Cognitive Liberty, Kids Online Safety, Us Society, Ai Regulations, Breakdown Of Trust, Kids Tech, Tech And Relationships, Aiaccountability, Societalimpact, Politics, Tech Ethics, Democracy, Tech Addiction, Technology, Us Politics, Disinformation, Ai And Kids, Ai And Work, Automation, Digitalgovernance, Algorithmicbias, Politicaltechnology, Apple, Ai Addiction, Techandsociety, Aza Raskin, Attention Economy, New Ai Shows, Future, Tech, Silicon Valley, Futureofwork, Tristan Harris, Screen Time, Agi, Relationships, Humancenteredai, Google, Politicsandai, Kids Phone Addiction, Children And Tech, Elon Musk, Socialjustice, Dataprivacy, Screentime, Bigtech, Technopoly

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Technology has shredded our attention. We can do better.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I want to convince you that technology is its own force that's pushing our culture in a very specific direction.
0:12.0	I'm on Instagram.
0:13.0	I'm just not present.
0:14.3	I can probably spend half an hour just looking at the same stuff again.
0:18.8	And we can predict what that direction is.
0:21.0	It's like we're living fake lives. It's like we're living big lives.
0:23.0	It's like mindless.
0:24.0	It's just to me.
0:25.0	Pretending.
0:26.0	We're constant pretenders.
0:28.0	And we can steer it in a different direction before it's too late.
0:31.0	I'm Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google.
0:35.0	And I'm Isaraskin.
0:37.0	I help build the open web at Mozilla and invented the infinite scroll.
0:41.0	As former tech insiders, we've seen and designed technology that
0:44.4	hijacks our attention. But the problems go deeper than that. Technology can
0:49.2	shape our thoughts, it can stoke feelings of envy, hatred, and social isolation.
0:54.0	It can so division, it can tear apart our shared sense of reality.
0:58.4	These are all aspects of human downgrading.
1:02.1	When technology dominates increasingly different parts of human nature.
1:07.0	Human downgrading is the climate change of culture, solely pulling our thoughts, emotions, and what we think and believe on a daily basis in a more divisive direction.
1:17.0	And like climate change, the result will be catastrophic.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Center for Humane Technology, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Center for Humane Technology and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.