Tristan Harris

So we're reflecting back the invisible consensus of society rather than currently social media is reflecting back the invisible division in society that's actually making that more salient.

So what would happen?

How quickly would it change if we had AIs that were gardening all the relationships of our societal fabric?

And I think that's the principle of humane technology is that there are these relationships in society that exist.

I have a relationship to myself.

You have a relationship to yourself.

Our phone right now is actually designed to replace the relationship I have with myself.

Humane technology would be technology in everyone else.

And humane technology would be trying to garden the relationship I have with myself.

So things more like meditation apps where that's deepening my relationship to myself.

Do not disturb is help deepening my relationship to myself.

Instead of AIs that are trying to replace friendship, we have AIs that are trying to augment friendship.

Things like Partiful or Moments or Luma, things that are trying to get people together in physical spaces or find my friends on Apple.

There's a hundred examples of this stuff being done in a way that's gardening the relationship between people.

And then you have Audrey Tang's work of gardening the relationship between political tribes, where you're actually showing and reflecting back all the positive and visible areas of consensus and unlikely agreement across political division.

And that took Taiwan from, I believe, like 7% trust in government to something like 40% trust in government over the course of the decade that they implemented her solutions on finding this kind of bridge ranking.

And that could be deployed across our whole system.

So there's totally a different way that all of this can work if we got clear that we don't want the current trajectory that we're on.

I appreciate that.

And I think that there are paid actors that I could identify over the course of the last many years.