Aza Raskin
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 27 Aug
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Hey everyone.
I'm Aza Raskin and welcome to your undivided attention.
So back in twenty twenty three, Tristan and I gave a talk we called the AI dilemma, and there we warned about the rise of artificial intimacy.
Um and just to double underline that in the engagement economy it was the race to the bottom of the brainstem.
In sort of second contact, it'll be race to intimacy.
Whichever
Agent.
Whatever you know, chat bot.
gets to have that primary intimate relationship in your life wins.
Three years later.
This is exactly what's happened.
Intimacy has replaced attention as the core thing, the core driver of what's getting engagement.
And so now it's our intimacy.
Not just our attention.
That is being exploited and then sold.
There's also been disastrous, as you've heard on the podcast.
Everything from cases of AI psychosis to chatbot-driven suicide.
This isn't just the tip of the iceberg.
This is the dusting of snow at the very top of the tip of the iceberg.
There are roughly a billion active chatbot users.
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