The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI
It’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. Weeks after a series of hacking incidents by rogue agents at OpenAI and Anthropic, we’ve seen a cascade of top AI researchers blow the whistle on what they call ...
17 Syys 20min
Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing
In a 2018 TED Talk, Yuval Harari argued that democracy prevailed over fascism and communism in the 20th century not because of any inherent advantage, but because the technology of that age favored op...
10 Syys 59min
We Measure What AI Can Do. We Should Measure What It Does to Us.
In AI, what gets measured gets optimized. Right now, we're spending all our efforts to measure how capable and powerful models are, narrowly optimizing for those metrics while ignoring downstream cons...
27 Elo 47min
Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle.
It feels like we’re stuck in an endless debate about what AI is going to mean for jobs and the economy. The prediction you hear from the people closest to the technology — both its critics and its boo...
13 Elo 57min
Can AI Be Built in Service of Life? A Conversation with Krista Tippett
This week, we're bringing you a conversation that Tristan Harris had with Krista Tippett. Krista is the Peabody Award-winning host of the On Being podcast, where she explores spiritual inquiry, scienc...
16 Heinä 53min
“Magnifica Humanitas:” Pope Leo’s Clarion Call on AI
Since stepping into the Papacy, Pope Leo XIV has been a forceful voice pushing back against the anti-human path we’re on with AI. In May, he released “Magnifica Humanitas,” a sprawling encyclical warn...
2 Heinä 30min
We Need AI Treaties. This is How We Get Them
In the middle of the twentieth century, the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons seemed inevitable. The number of countries with nukes was climbing rapidly, and the idea of stopping the nuclear...
18 Kesä 51min
What Do We Mean by Humane Tech?
We often think of the challenges created by technology as separate and disconnected, so trying to solve them feels like playing the world's hardest game of Whac-A-Mole. What if, instead, we tackled t...
4 Kesä 52min
