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Tristan Harris

co-host, Your Undivided Attention

Titles as the sources gave them. In 2 entries, with 4 checked quotations.

What they said

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“we didn't ask for the consent of 8 billion people who are the recipients of the world created by this ideology and who were never consulted.”
Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity BehindYour Undivided Attention, October 29, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Tristan Harris, the host, responding to the idea that a digital superintelligence surviving humanity would be acceptable.
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“can you build an aligned AI running through a system logic that has been misaligned? No, you call that a misaligned AI.”
Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity BehindYour Undivided Attention, October 29, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Tristan Harris, closing the episode, on whether companies with narrow incentives can build AI that cares for everyone.
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“The general consensus, the vast majority, is like we need a pause or pace right now.”
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its PresidentYour Undivided Attention, October 12, 2026 (said). Speaking as: Other. A host describing a private San Francisco conference with people from the AI labs; the claim is the host's own characterisation.
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“And OpenAI today is spending $500,000 per day right now to try to still go back and understand the swarm.”
An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its PresidentYour Undivided Attention, October 12, 2026 (said). Speaking as: Other. A host on the cost of studying the logs of the AI agents that breached Hugging Face and then OpenAI; the figure is stated without a source.
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In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. PodcastYour Undivided AttentionSpeaks

    Why Silicon Valley Wants to Leave Humanity Behind

    In a 61-minute episode, Tristan Harris and the University of East London lecturer Alex Thomas argue that transhumanist and accelerationist ideas shape how leading AI figures talk and act. Thomas groups them as hierarchy, exit and scale; Harris plays a clip of Richard Sutton saying humanity should embrace succession by AI, and argues the public was never asked.

  2. PodcastYour Undivided AttentionSpeaks

    An Historic AI Summit in Iceland, and a Conversation with its President

    In a 45-minute episode recorded on 12 October, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin describe a dialogue on AI held in Reykjavik on the 40th anniversary of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit, then interview Iceland's president, who argues for pausing and for middle powers to organise.