Your Undivided Attention
Co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into both our lives and a humane future. Join us every other Thursday as we confront challenges and explore solutions with a wide range of thought leaders and change-makers.
Your Undivided Attention is produced by our Executive Producer Josh Lash and our Senior Producer Julia Scott.
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Ben Buchanan Wants the U.S. to Win on AI. But Is It a Race or a Trap?
Former White House AI director Ben Buchanan joins the show to talk about the argument in his new book that, in order to avoid worst-case scenarios, it's essential that open societies like the US win the AI race against closed societies like China. But is it really a race — or is it a trap?
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The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos
Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI, followed by a panel discussion between Tristan and Professor Yoshua Bengio and moderated by Kenneth Cukier of The Economist, about how the race to build uncontrolled AI has real-world consequences for us all.
Episode 82
Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei
What can tales of mythology and magic teach us about the AI race? Mythologist Josh Schrei explains how looking at foundational cultural stories could guide ethical tech development.
Episode 75
The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao
It’s a common counterpoint: “But what about China? We can’t let China get ahead.” In this episode, experts Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao explain the realities of Chinese AI development and assess the stakes for the multi-national race.
Episode 62
The Race to Cooperation with David Sloan Wilson
It’s easy to tell ourselves we’re living in the world we want – one where Darwinian evolution drives competing technology platforms and capitalism pushes nations to maximize GDP regardless of externalities like carbon emissions. It can feel like evolution and competition are all there is. But what if that’s not the whole story of evolution? On Your Undivided Attention, we speak with evolutionary theorist, author, and professor David Sloan Wilson about his work documenting where an enlightened game – one of cooperation rather than competition – is possible.
