Tristan Harris

And we haven't talked about AI companions yet, but I think it's important that we should do that.

I think it's important to integrate that before you get to the other path.

I'm sorry, by the way, no apologies, but there's just, there's so much information to cover and I...

I care about people.

I want things to go well for people.

I want people to look at their children in the eyes and be able to say, like... You know, I think I grew up maybe under a false assumption.

And something that really influenced my life was...

I used to have this belief that there were some adults in the room somewhere.

We're doing our thing here.

We're in LA.

We're recording this.

And there's some adults protecting the country, national security.

There's some adults who are making sure that geopolitics is stable.

There's some adults that are making sure that industries don't cause toxicity and carcinogens.

And that there's adults who are caring about stewarding things and making things go well.

And...

I think that there have been times in history where there were adults, especially born out of massive world catastrophes, like coming out of World War II, there was a lot of conscious care about how do we create the institutions and the structures, Bretton Woods, United Nations, positive some economics that would steward the world so we don't have war again.

And as I, in my first round of the social media work, as I started entering into the rooms where the adults were,

And I recognized that because technology and software was eating the world, a lot of the people in power didn't understand the software, didn't understand technology.

You go to the Senate Intelligence Committee and you talk about what social media is doing to democracy and where Russian psychological influence campaigns were happening, which were real campaigns.