Aza Raskin

Hey everyone, it's Aza Raskin and welcome to Your Undivided Attention.

Today, we're going to be doing something a little different, a kind of looking back to look forward.

And to do that, we've invited the co-founder for Center for Humane Technology, along with me and Tristan, Randy Fernando, for this special episode.

And what we're going to be talking about is really what we talk about when we talk about humane technology.

We're going to be exploring seven principles of humane tech and the myths that they bust.

So, hey, Randy, welcome to the show.

Glad to be here.

All right, Randy, so just really quickly, before we dive in, I think it's important that people hear just a little bit about your background.

Why should we be listening to you in this moment?

And I just want everyone to know because...

Many people, of course, know Tristan's name and my name, but they don't know, Randy, as much your name.

But every major moment of our journey through social media into AI, like you've been there behind the scenes at Social Dilemma for the AI doc.

You're always there, always supporting.

And I just want everyone...

listening to know that.

And Randy's been working on sort of like codifying a set of humane technology principles that we've been using since the very beginning.

You know, the name humane comes, of course, from my father created the Macintosh project.

He sort of called what it is to be humane, to be responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

And why this is so important and why now is that, you know, when we used to look at social media, people would talk about all these separate problems.

They talk about there's addiction over here and polarization over here and misinformation in that corner, over sexualization over here, hyper partisanship over here.