Tristan Harris
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like on one side of the balance scale, there's like trillions of dollars of market incentives, the most powerful companies.
And then there's like, well, then there's me over here.
I just watched this movie by myself.
What am I gonna do?
What can I do?
And then you go into denial and despair or deflection.
Or even if you have one company, like what can one company do?
Or even one country, because there's a competitive dynamic.
But I think if we reframe the problem as it's not just us against AI, but actually this is a bigger question about what is our relationship as humanity with technology?
And we can look back social media as a form of technology is really trying to encroach
onto our humanity and take over parts of us that we don't want to give up.
If you put it that way, actually, there is a movement.
There's a whole human movement that is underway to reclaim humanity from technology, sort of like protect it, reclaim it.
Recently, there was an attempted federal bill to block any state from regulating AI.
Terrifying.
99 senators to one voted against that moratorium.
When in modern history has the Senate agreed 99% to one on anything?
And so I think there's a human movement underway and that gives me some amount of hope.
Yeah, I think your assignment when you leave here is to tell everybody you know to watch the film because I think bringing awareness and everybody talking about it in a way that allows us to,
have these kinds of conversations.