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.
142 episodes transcribedYou may have heard about the arrival of GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest large language model (LLM) release. GPT-4 surpasses its predecessor in terms of reliabi...
A few months ago on Your Undivided Attention, we released a Spotlight episode on TikTok's national security risks. Since then, we've learned more abou...
It may seem like the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasingly powerful large language models you may have heard of, is moving really fast… an...
It’s easy to tell ourselves we’re living in the world we want – one where Darwinian evolution drives competing technology platforms and capitalism pus...
Welcome to our first-ever Ask Us Anything episode. Recently we put out a call for questions… and, wow, did you come through! We got more than 100 resp...
When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis...
When it comes to social media risk, there is reason to hope for consensus. Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris recently helped laun...
The weekly American news show 60 Minutes invited Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris back recently to discuss political polarizatio...
Since it’s looking more and more like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will probably soon have ownership of Twitter, we wanted to do a special epis...
We often talk about the need to protect American democracy. But perhaps those of us in the United States don't currently live in a democracy.As resear...
The next frontier of the internet is the metaverse. That's why Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta, and just sold $1...
Have you ever lost a friend to misperception? Have you lost a friend or a family member to the idea that your views got so different, that it was time...
Imagine it's the Cold War. Imagine that the Soviet Union puts itself in a position to influence the television programming of the entire Western world...
At Center for Humane Technology, we often talk about multipolar traps — which arise when individuals have an incentive to act in ways that are benefic...
When you hear the word cyber-attack, what comes to mind? Someone hacking into your email, or stealing your Facebook password?As it turns out, our most...
Why isn't Twitter doing more to get bots off their platform? Why isn’t Uber taking better care of its drivers? What if...they can't?Venture-capital ba...
This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio C...
Democracy depends on our ability to choose our political views. But the language we use to talk about political issues is deliberately designed to be...
The game that social media sets us up to play is a game that rewards outrage. It's a game that we win by being better than other players at dunking on...
How would you know if you were in a cult? If not a cult, then at least under undue influence?The truth is: we're all under some form of undue influenc...
