Is AI shaping a future we didn’t ask for?
Well, AI risk expert Tristan Harris believes the real issue isn’t AI itself, but the speed and intention behind it.
Tristan is today’s guest on The Diary Of A CEO, a former Google employee who focused on tech ethics and the co-founder of the Centre for Humane Technology.
He became widely known for ‘The Social Dilemma’ where he revealed how social media was already reshaping our attention and politics. This technology is evolving faster than anything we have in place to understand or manage it.
Tristan has seen how these systems are built from the inside, he’s watched how a simple goal to “keep people scrolling” created addiction and mental-health fallout.
And now, those same aims are being applied to far more powerful AI systems with people inside labs believing AGI could be only a few years to a decade away…