Your Undivided Attention

By Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

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 Executive Editor Sasha Fegan and Senior Producer Julia Scott. Our Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.

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Episodes

2025-04-03 Forever Chemicals, Forever Consequences: What PFAS Teaches Us About AI

2025-03-20 Weaponizing Uncertainty: How Tech is Recycling Big Tobacco’s Playbook

2025-03-06 The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking

2025-02-20 Behind the DeepSeek Hype, AI is Learning to Reason

2025-01-30 The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive

2025-01-16 Laughing at Power: A Troublemaker’s Guide to Changing Tech

2024-12-19 Ask Us Anything 2024

2024-11-21 The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics

2024-11-07 What Can We Do About Abusive Chatbots? With Meetali Jain and Camille Carlton

2024-10-24 When the "Person" Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer

2024-10-10 Is It AI? One Tool to Tell What’s Real with Truemedia.org CEO Oren Etzioni

2024-10-07 'A Turning Point in History': Yuval Noah Harari on AI’s Cultural Takeover

2024-09-26 ‘We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI

2024-09-13 AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too.

2024-09-06 Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy (rerun)

2024-08-26 Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins

2024-08-12 This Moment in AI: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

2024-07-18 Decoding Our DNA: How AI Supercharges Medical Breakthroughs and Biological Threats with Kevin Esvelt

2024-07-04 How to Think About AI Consciousness With Anil Seth

2024-06-20 Why Are Migrants Becoming AI Test Subjects? With Petra Molnar

2024-06-07 Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn

2024-05-23 War is a Laboratory for AI with Paul Scharre

2024-05-09 AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu

2024-04-11 Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis

2024-03-29 Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller

2024-02-29 Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang

2024-02-13 U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?

2024-02-01 Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet

2024-01-18 Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei

2023-12-21 How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller

2023-11-30 2023 Ask Us Anything

2023-11-21 The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish

2023-11-02 A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler

2023-10-26 No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

2023-09-28 Mustafa Suleyman Says We Need to Contain AI. How Do We Do It?

2023-09-19 Inside the First AI Insight Forum in Washington

2023-09-12 Spotlight on AI: What Would It Take For This to Go Well?

2023-08-31 The AI ‘Race’: China vs. the US with Jeffrey Ding and Karen Hao

2023-08-17 Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy

2023-08-03 Protecting Our Freedom of Thought with Nita Farahany

2023-07-21 Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett

2023-07-06 Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss

2023-06-22 What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio

2023-06-08 Spotlight: How Zombie Values Infect Society

2023-06-02 Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher

2023-05-25 The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth

2023-05-11 Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions

2023-05-04 Talking With Animals… Using AI

2023-04-21 Can We Govern AI?

2023-04-06 Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech

2023-03-24 The AI Dilemma

2023-03-02 TikTok’s Transparency Problem

2023-02-16 Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake

2023-02-02 The Race to Cooperation

2022-12-29 Ask Us Anything: You Asked, We Answered

2022-12-15 Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?

2022-11-23 Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen

2022-11-10 Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes'

2022-10-27 Spotlight — Elon, Twitter and the Gladiator Arena

2022-10-20 They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig

2022-10-06 Stepping Into the Metaverse — with Dr. Courtney Cogburn and Prof. Jeremy Bailenson

2022-09-22 Fighting With Mirages of Each Other — with Adam Mastroianni

2022-09-08 Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat

2022-08-25 Spotlight — How might a long-term stock market transform tech?

2022-08-04 The Invisible Cyber-War

2022-06-30 An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns

2022-06-16 Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron

2022-06-02 How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz

2022-05-19 Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron

2022-05-05 How To Free Our Minds — with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan

2022-04-26 Spotlight — A Bigger Picture on Elon & Twitter

2022-04-21 What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter

2022-04-07 Spotlight — What Is Humane Technology?

2022-03-24 Digital Democracy is Within Reach with Audrey Tang (Rerun)

2022-03-10 The Dark Side Of Decentralization — with Audrey Kurth Cronin

2022-02-24 The Invisible Influence of Language — with Lera Boroditsky

2022-02-10 How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality — with Kim Stanley Robinson

2022-02-03 Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know — with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Stephanie Lepp

2022-01-13 Is World War III Already Here? — with Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster

2021-12-10 A Fresh Take on Tech in China — with Rui Ma and Duncan Clark

2021-11-30 Test Run!

2021-11-11 Behind the Curtain on The Social Dilemma — with Jeff Orlowski-Yang and Larissa Rhodes

2021-10-18 A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen

2021-10-06 Spotlight — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing

2021-09-30 Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal

2021-09-21 Spotlight — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger

2021-09-21 Bonus — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger

2021-09-03 The Power of Solutions Journalism — with Tina Rosenberg and Hélène Biandudi Hofer

2021-08-12 Do You Want to Become a Vampire? — with L.A. Paul

2021-07-23 You Will Never Breathe the Same Again — with James Nestor

2021-07-09 A Facebook Whistleblower — with Sophie Zhang

2021-06-25 [Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger

2021-06-25 A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger

2021-05-10 Mr. Harris Zooms to Washington

2021-04-29 Can Your Reality Turn on a Word? — with Anthony Jacquin

2021-04-22 The Stubborn Optimist's Guide Revisited — with Christiana Figueres (Rerun)

2021-04-15 Mind the (Perception) Gap — with Dan Vallone

2021-04-08 Spotlight — Coded Bias

2021-04-01 Come Together Right Now — with Shamil Idriss

2021-03-18 Disinformation Then and Now — with Camille François

2021-03-04 The Courage to Connect — with Ciaran O’Connor and John Wood, Jr.

2021-02-11 A Renegade Solution to Extractive Economics — with Kate Raworth

2021-01-15 Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

2020-12-23 Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser

2020-10-27 Are the Kids Alright? — with Jonathan Haidt

2020-10-06 Your Nation's Attention for the Price of a Used Car — with Zahed Amanullah

2020-09-09 Spotlight: The Social Dilemma

2020-09-02 Facebook Goes '2Africa' — with Julie Owono

2020-08-06 When Media Was for You and Me — with Fred Turner

2020-07-23 Digital Democracy Is Within Reach — with Audrey Tang

2020-07-10 Spotlight — Beyond the Boycott

2020-07-08 The World According to Q — with Travis View

2020-06-22 The Bully’s Pulpit — with Fadi Quran

2020-06-17 The Dictator's Playbook Revisited — with Maria Ressa (Rerun)

2020-06-02 The Fake News of Your Own Mind — with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman

2020-05-21 The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to Saving the Planet — with Christiana Figueres

2020-05-07 The Spin Doctors Are In — with Renée DiResta

2020-04-28 When Attention Went on Sale — with Tim Wu

2020-04-22 Changing Our Climate of Denial — with Anthony Leiserowitz

2020-03-31 Stranger than Fiction — with Claire Wardle

2020-01-30 Mr. Harris Goes to Washington

2020-01-14 Trust Falls — with Rachel Botsman

2019-12-19 The Cure for Hate — with Tony McAleer

2019-12-05 Rock the Voter — with Brittany Kaiser

2019-11-05 The Dictator's Playbook — with Maria Ressa

2019-10-22 The Opposite of Addiction — with Johann Hari

2019-08-14 Pardon the Interruptions — with Gloria Mark

2019-08-01 From Russia with Likes (Part 2) — with Renée DiResta

2019-07-24 From Russia with Likes (Part 1) — with Renée DiResta

2019-07-10 Down the Rabbit Hole by Design — with Guillaume Chaslot

2019-06-25 With Great Power Comes... No Responsibility? — with Yaёl Eisenstat

2019-06-19 Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll

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