Your Undivided Attention
The Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, Daniel Barcay and Aza Raskin - your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com
Latest episode: Thu Sep 11 2025
Join us every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by Senior Producer Julia Scott and Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.
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- Sep11The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Matters for AI51mins
- Aug26How OpenAI's ChatGPT Guided a Teen to His Death45mins
- Aug14“Rogue AI” Used to be a Science Fiction Trope. Not Anymore.42mins
- Jul31AI is the Next Free Speech Battleground49mins
- Jul17Daniel Kokotajlo Forecasts the End of Human Dominance38mins
- Jun26Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? with Prof. Michael Sandel46mins
- Jun12The Narrow Path: Sam Hammond on AI, Institutions, and the Fragile Future47mins
- May30People are Lonelier than Ever. Enter AI.43mins
- May15Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection42mins
- Apr30AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?52mins
- Apr21Rethinking School in the Age of AI42mins
- Apr3Forever Chemicals, Forever Consequences: What PFAS Teaches Us About AI64mins
- Mar20Weaponizing Uncertainty: How Tech is Recycling Big Tobacco’s Playbook51mins
- Mar6The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking58mins
- Feb20Behind the DeepSeek Hype, AI is Learning to Reason31mins
- Jan30The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive34mins
- Jan16Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech45mins
- Dec19Ask Us Anything 202440mins
- Nov21The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics46mins
- Nov7What Can We Do About Abusive Chatbots? With Meetali Jain and Camille Carlton48mins
- Oct24When the "Person" Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer49mins
- Oct10Is It AI? One Tool to Tell What’s Real with Truemedia.org CEO Oren Etzioni25mins
- Oct7'A Turning Point in History': Yuval Noah Harari on AI’s Cultural Takeover90mins
- Sep26‘We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI41mins
- Sep13AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too.39mins
- Sep6Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy (rerun)44mins
- Aug26Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins43mins
- Aug12This Moment in AI: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going36mins
- Jul18Decoding Our DNA: How AI Supercharges Medical Breakthroughs and Biological Threats with Kevin Esvelt32mins
- Jul4How to Think About AI Consciousness With Anil Seth47mins
- Jun20Why Are Migrants Becoming AI Test Subjects? With Petra Molnar46mins
- Jun7Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn37mins
- May23War is a Laboratory for AI with Paul Scharre59mins
- May9AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu46mins
- Apr11Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis65mins
- Mar29Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller45mins
- Feb29Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang34mins
- Feb13U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?25mins
- Feb1Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet42mins
- Jan18Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei35mins
- Dec21How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller47mins
- Nov302023 Ask Us Anything35mins
- Nov21The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish38mins
- Nov2A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler35mins
- Oct26No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini47mins
- Sep28Mustafa Suleyman Says We Need to Contain AI. How Do We Do It?32mins
- Sep19Inside the First AI Insight Forum in Washington26mins
- Sep12Spotlight on AI: What Would It Take For This to Go Well?43mins
- Aug31The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao45mins
- Aug17Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy44mins
- Aug3Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany44mins
- Jul21Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett34mins
- Jul6Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss34mins
- Jun22What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio29mins
- Jun8Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society22mins
- Jun2Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher55mins
- May25The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth38mins
- May11Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions26mins
- May4Talking With Animals… Using AI24mins
- Apr21Can We Govern AI?39mins
- Apr6Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech22mins
- Mar24The AI Dilemma42mins
- Mar2TikTok’s Transparency Problem37mins
- Feb16Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake46mins
- Feb2The Race to Cooperation34mins
- Dec29Ask Us Anything: You Asked, We Answered42mins
- Dec15Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?42mins
- Nov23Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen26mins
- Nov10Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes'12mins
- Oct27Spotlight — Elon, Twitter and the Gladiator Arena17mins
- Oct20They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig39mins
- Oct6Stepping Into the Metaverse — with Dr. Courtney Cogburn and Prof. Jeremy Bailenson59mins
- Sep22Fighting With Mirages of Each Other — with Adam Mastroianni39mins
- Sep8Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat23mins
- Aug25Spotlight — How might a long-term stock market transform tech?38mins
- Aug4The Invisible Cyber-War58mins
- Jun30An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns51mins
- Jun16Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron31mins
- Jun2How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz36mins
- May19Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron45mins
- May5How To Free Our Minds — with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan51mins
- Apr26Spotlight — A Bigger Picture on Elon & Twitter13mins
- Apr21What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter49mins
- Apr7Spotlight — What Is Humane Technology?12mins
- Mar24Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)47mins
- Mar10The Dark Side Of Decentralization — with Audrey Kurth Cronin48mins
- Feb24The Invisible Influence of Language — with Lera Boroditsky40mins
- Feb10How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality — with Kim Stanley Robinson40mins
- Feb3Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know — with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Stephanie Lepp35mins
- Jan13Is World War III Already Here? — with Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster35mins
- Dec10A Fresh Take on Tech in China — with Rui Ma and Duncan Clark48mins
- Nov11Behind the Curtain on The Social Dilemma — with Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Larissa Rhodes43mins
- Oct18A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen55mins
- Oct6Spotlight — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing4mins
- Sep30Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal43mins
- Sep21Spotlight — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger65mins
- Sep3The Power of Solutions Journalism — with Tina Rosenberg and Hélène Biandudi Hofer40mins
- Aug12Do You Want to Become a Vampire? — with L.A. Paul36mins
- Jul23You Will Never Breathe the Same Again — with James Nestor37mins
- Jul9A Facebook Whistleblower — with Sophie Zhang28mins
- Jun25[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger122mins
- Jun25A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger37mins
- May10Mr. Harris Zooms to Washington32mins
- Apr29Can Your Reality Turn on a Word? — with Anthony Jacquin47mins
- Apr22The Stubborn Optimist's Guide Revisited — with Christiana Figueres (Rerun)59mins
- Apr15Mind the (Perception) Gap — with Dan Vallone62mins
- Apr8Spotlight — Coded Bias23mins
- Apr1Come Together Right Now — with Shamil Idriss76mins
- Mar18Disinformation Then and Now — with Camille François55mins
- Mar4The Courage to Connect — with Ciaran O’Connor and John Wood, Jr.60mins
- Feb11A Renegade Solution to Extractive Economics — with Kate Raworth86mins
- Jan15Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari119mins
- Dec23Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser48mins
- Oct27Are the Kids Alright? — with Jonathan Haidt40mins
- Oct6Your Nation's Attention for the Price of a Used Car — with Zahed Amanullah43mins
- Sep9Spotlight: The Social Dilemma4mins
- Sep2Facebook Goes '2Africa' — with Julie Owono35mins
- Aug6When Media Was for You and Me — with Fred Turner37mins
- Jul23Digital Democracy Is Within Reach — with Audrey Tang46mins
- Jul10Spotlight — Beyond the Boycott9mins
- Jul8The World According to Q — with Travis View59mins
- Jun22The Bully’s Pulpit — with Fadi Quran55mins
- Jun17The Dictator's Playbook Revisited — with Maria Ressa (Rerun)52mins
- Jun2The Fake News of Your Own Mind — with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman49mins
- May21The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to Saving the Planet — with Christiana Figueres52mins
- May7The Spin Doctors Are In — with Renée DiResta52mins
- Apr28When Attention Went on Sale — with Tim Wu45mins
- Apr22Changing Our Climate of Denial — with Anthony Leiserowitz66mins
- Mar31Stranger than Fiction — with Claire Wardle62mins
- Jan30Mr. Harris Goes to Washington42mins
- Jan14Trust Falls — with Rachel Botsman51mins
- Dec19The Cure for Hate — with Tony McAleer41mins
- Dec5Rock the Voter — with Brittany Kaiser52mins
- Nov5The Dictator's Playbook — with Maria Ressa50mins
- Oct22The Opposite of Addiction — with Johann Hari48mins
- Aug14Pardon the Interruptions — with Gloria Mark43mins
- Aug1From Russia with Likes (Part 2) — with Renée DiResta28mins
- Jul24From Russia with Likes (Part 1) — with Renée DiResta45mins
- Jul10Down the Rabbit Hole by Design — with Guillaume Chaslot54mins
- Jun25With Great Power Comes... No Responsibility? — with Yaёl Eisenstat55mins
- Jun19Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll39mins
- Jun10What Happened in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll40mins
- Apr16Launching June 10: Your Undivided Attention3mins