AI’s potential benefits are incredible. But right now, we’re sleepwalking into a dangerous world that no one wants. As @tristanharris argues in an urgent new TED Talk, this doesn’t have to be inevitable. It’s essential we snap out of the trance, face the dangerous implications of our current path, and coordinate toward a new path for AI. Watch the talk: bit.ly/44Aihft Read the text version here: bit.ly/4lTlwon

"It is essential now, at this relatively early phase of AI development, for AI users, policymakers, and the public to recognize not just the danger bound up in anthropomorphic AI, but also the self-interested incentives driving companies to claim forms of AI consciousness." In his latest piece for @techpolicypress, CHT co-founder @Randima_F argues that discussions of AI "consciousness" distract from the more important conversation about the economic incentives driving the design of AI products. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4eB5WvT

Imran Khan — who leads our work on psychosocial evaluations of AI — spoke to @IEEESpectrum on the need for benchmarks that measure how AI products impact society, not just their raw capability. Read the full article here: bit.ly/4g4sBBW

Pete Furlong, CHT's Senior Manager of Policy and Research, was featured in @cqresearcher's report on the risks and rewards of humanoid robotics. Read the full report here: bit.ly/4xfcO9y

"When has a handful of people ever concentrated all the wealth and then consciously redistributed it to everyone else?" The CEOs of the top AI companies admit that their products may take your job. In return, they promise to share the economic gains of AI with the rest of us. Do you trust that promise? CHT co-founders @tristanharris and @aza Raskin joined @GavinNewsom for a wide-ranging discussion on the stakes of the disastrous default path we're on with AI, and how we can still grab the wheel and steer towards a better future. Check out their full conversation: bit.ly/4dQoJBS

"Does it sound like a good idea for you and your family to only be able to pay your bills because an AI company that took your job is gonna pay you?" Over half of Americans believe the risks of AI outweigh the benefits. Tristan Harris went on @OneNationFNC with @kilmeade to discuss why people aren't buying the vision of AI they're being sold today — and what a different path might look like.

"We are truly witnessing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human" — Pope Leo XIV AI has been reshaping what it means to be human, and this week @Pontifex gave much-needed voice to what many of us have been struggling to articulate. We're grateful for his clarity, and for the moral weight he's bringing to a conversation that so deeply needs it. Pope Leo's speech — and new encyclical on AI — adds to the growing chorus of demands for a more human-centered future with technology. At CHT, we've argued in "AI and What Makes Us Human" that we need to strengthen and reinforce our humanity for the age of AI, and work as a collective to establish new norms, rights, and legal protections to ensure that this technology genuinely serves us. If we don't, we risk AI eroding the very things that give human life meaning. Real change with AI will require a whole-of-society approach. The Vatican's work around AI is proof that institutions around the world are sounding the alarm on the unique threats of this technology. We thank Pope Leo for using his platform to educate the public on AI's risks, and to emphasize the importance of human dignity amid a technological revolution.

Our co-founder, @tristanharris, is honored to have been invited to The Vatican to meet with @Pontifex ahead of the release of his first encyclical titled “Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity)," which warned against AI's erosion of human dignity, identity, and agency. We also screened @theaidocfilm to an audience of senior leaders at The Vatican, which further energized their deep engagement with AI. AI is being built and deployed without wisdom and care for humanity, and without adequate measures to protect a human future. Our hope is that the arms race to dominate AI will be recognized as the fundamental driver behind AI companies' race to replace, rather than augment, humanity. To solve this challenge, we must address the root cause of this arms race. In his 1963 encyclical titled “Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth)”, Pope John Paul XXIII named the arms race of nuclear weapons as a grave threat to peace. We are grateful to Pope Leo and the Vatican for their leadership on AI, and we are hopeful that this encyclical will help the world recognize what is at stake and the urgent need to change course.