Tristan Harris Is Trying to Save Us from AI

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Trevor is joined by Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist and entrepreneur who is probably best known as "the guy from 'The Social Dilemma' documentary” and who has dedicated himself and his company to aligning technology with humanity’s best interests. Tristan debunks the myth of his Burning Man epiphany and unpacks both the promises and the perils that lie ahead with AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:12.4	Happy bonus episode day, everybody.
0:20.2	Happy bonus episode day. Yeah. Happy bonus episode day.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.3	We are going to have two episodes this week.
0:26.2	And I thought it would be fun to do it for two reasons.
0:30.5	One, because we won't have an episode next week, because it is, of course, us celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
0:38.0	And so we'll be taking a break for that.
0:39.8	Right.
0:40.6	So Merry Christmas to everyone.
0:42.6	And if you do not celebrate Christmas, enjoy hell.
0:47.1	For the rest of you, we're going to be making this bonus episode.
0:55.3	We're going to be making this bonus episode. We're going to be making this bonus episode.
0:57.6	And you know why?
0:58.9	It's because AI has been a big part of the conversation over the past few weeks.
1:03.8	We spoke to Sam Altman, the face of open AI and, you know, what people think might be
1:10.3	the future or the apocalypse.
1:12.4	And we spoke to Janelle Monet, which is a different conversation because obviously she's
1:16.9	on the art side, but her love of technology and AI and and Androids and it sort of gave
1:23.0	it a different bent or feeling.
1:25.8	And I thought there's one more person we could include in this conversation, which would
1:29.6	really round it out.
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