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Tristan Harris

co-host, Your Undivided Attention

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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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  1. 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.