In the words of the late brilliant sociobiologist, E.O. Wilson, the fundamental problem of humanity

is we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

And when you have godlike technology, you need the wisdom to match the power that you have.

And our previous wisdom and thinking have not been commensurate to the complexity of

our problems.

Technology is further undermining our capacity to make sense of the world.

So the gap between our ability to make sense of the world and the increasing complexity

of the world is getting bigger.

So how do we develop the wisdom we need to responsibly steward our godlike technology?

I'm Tristan Harris, and this is your undivided attention, the podcast from the Center for

Humane Technology.

In today in the show, we're going to talk about one way that the Center for Humane Technology

is attempting to close the wisdom gap.

It's a free online course called Foundations of Humane Technology.

So I'm going to talk a little bit about the wisdom gap we're attempting to close.

And then I'll hand the baton to our co-founder and executive director, Randima Fernando,

to introduce Foundations of Humane Technology.

You know, since the social dilemma came out in September 2020, the world didn't just

stop and freeze those of the problems of technology, misinformation, addiction, et cetera.

Technology keeps racing along, and it's generating brand new issues that we didn't even have

before.

For example, Aiza, my co-host on this podcast, showed me a new synthetic media technology

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