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.
151 episodes transcribedIn the next two episodes of Your Undivided Attention, we take a close look at two respective industries: big food and social media, which represent da...
What happens when creators consider what lifelong human development looks like in terms of the tools we make? And what philosophies from Sesame Street...
You’re likely familiar with the modern zombie trope: a zombie bites someone you care about and they’re transformed into a creature who wants your brai...
There’s really no one better than veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at challenging people to articulate their thinking. Tristan Harrris recently sa...
Democracy in action has looked the same for generations. Constituents might go to a library or school every one or two years and cast their vote for p...
A few episodes back, we presented Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s talk The AI Dilemma. People inside the companies that are building generative artifi...
Despite our serious concerns about the pace of deployment of generative artificial intelligence, we are not anti-AI. There are uses that can help us b...
When it comes to AI, what kind of regulations might we need to address this rapidly developing new class of technologies? What makes regulating AI and...
In our previous episode, we shared a presentation Tristan and Aza recently delivered to a group of influential technologists about the race happening...
You 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...
