Tristan Harris

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Tristan Harris is a computer scientist, the co-founder & president of the Center for Humane Technology, and co-host of the Your Undivided Attention podcast. Tristan Harris joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the role technology is playing in our lives, how algorithms determine the things we like, and how technology companies need to take on more responsibility. Tristan explains our inability to have trust in a shared information environment, how humans are becoming more unable to choose their own thoughts, and how technology enables us to run away from ourselves. Dax & Tristan discuss how users are more profitable when they're addicted, anxious, and misinformed and Tristan breaks down the deep dilemma of living in these digital habitats. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert. I'm Dick Rather, and I'm joined by Peraniston Mouse.
0:08.0	Welcome. Dick Rather, that's a, that's a rough name. I can't believe I've made it this far with that name. I had to overcome it.
0:15.2	The adversity. We have talked a bazillion times since we both saw the social dilemma which is on
0:22.2	Netflix we really were infected by and that of
0:25.6	course became a gateway drug to doing rabbit hole the New York Times podcast which we loved and so we
0:31.3	had an opportunity to talk to Tristan Harris, who was front and center in the social dilemma.
0:38.0	And we think you will enjoy him immensely.
0:40.0	Tristan is a computer scientist that spent three years as Google Design Ethicist
0:45.2	developing a framework of how technology should ethically steer the thoughts and
0:49.4	actions of billions of people from screens. He is now co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology of
0:53.3	the people from screens. He is now co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology
0:55.4	whose mission is to reverse human downgrading and realign technology with humanity.
1:00.3	He's really the head honcho on this topic. He is yeah he's he is the what would we say he
1:07.8	Vanguard he's the Vanguard he really is he was the first one out there really sounding an alarm yeah and we all are really sounding an alarm and we all are in debt to this man's
1:16.7	huge ethical moral compass so please enjoy Tristan Harris
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1:37.0	He's an option expert.
1:40.0	He's an option's man.
1:42.0	He's an I'm sure it's bad.
1:50.0	Hey, Dex.
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