Tristan Harris

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1,019 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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Your Undivided Attention · Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle. · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Is this going to happen?

Is this good?

Is this true?

Yeah, that just completely changes the rest of the job market in a way that doesn't really work.

important that there's an attempt to attack some of the wealthy, but there's currently a lot of efforts to fight it.

And there's a line here, you know, watch what they do, not what they say.

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, moved to Nevada and poured tens of millions of dollars into fighting California's proposed billionaire tax.

And that's still while AI displacement is a forecast.

I want to slow this down for a second.

I think there's a lot of subtle elements here.

So just to first to steelman the case for the billionaires, it's not that they actually don't think there should be a tax.

They just want to make sure that money would be very, very well spent.

That might be their position that, you know, giving it to the current government apparatus, just like throwing it in a in a wood chipper and it just disappears.

But...

What I wanted to say was that there's a frame we often invoke in our work by the author Luke Drago and Rudolph Lane of the intelligence curse, that basically as more economic GDP comes from AI and data centers and not from people, so you're getting a return for total country GDP from AI data centers and not as much from the labor of individual people.

Now you've got some government revenue coming in.

Do you have any incentive to invest in the development, education, childcare, healthcare of your people?

And the answer is like, no, not really.

And this mirrors a phenomenon in economics called the resource curse, where if you have a country like Venezuela or South Sudan, where the country's GDP comes from, say, oil, you have an incentive to invest in oil infrastructure and not in your people because you don't get a return from that.

What happens now when we don't get a return from that skill premium class because we don't need them for that anymore?

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