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Center for Humane Technology
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CHT bridges AI safety concerns with public advocacy, making it relevant for understanding societal alignment risks and policy efforts, though its focus is broader than technical AI safety research.
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The Center for Humane Technology (CHT) is an advocacy and research organization focused on realigning technology—particularly social media and AI—with human well-being and societal health. Founded by former tech insiders including Tristan Harris, CHT examines how persuasive design and algorithmic systems can undermine autonomy, democracy, and mental health. The organization produces educational content, policy recommendations, and public discourse around responsible technology development.
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- •Advocates for redesigning technology platforms to prioritize human well-being over engagement metrics and addictive design patterns.
- •Produces influential media including the 'Your Undivided Attention' podcast exploring the intersection of AI, persuasion, and societal harm.
- •Highlights risks of AI systems optimizing for engagement in ways that exploit psychological vulnerabilities and erode individual autonomy.
- •Engages policymakers and the public to push for regulatory frameworks that hold tech companies accountable for societal harms.
- •Frames AI safety concerns in terms of human values alignment, connecting technical AI risks to broader social and democratic harms.
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| Entity | Property | Value | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Humane Technology | annual-revenue | 1800000 | 2025 |
| Center for Humane Technology | Founded Date | 2018 | — |
| Center for Humane Technology | annual-revenue | 3580000 | 2024 |
| Center for Humane Technology | employee-count | 25 | 2025 |
| Center for Humane Technology | Headquarters | San Francisco, CA | — |
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A better future with technology is possible.
Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that today's most consequential technologies, such as AI and social media, actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
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Our organization catalyzes systems-level change in the tech ecosystem and beyond.
At CHT, we believe in the promises of technology. But these promises can end up distorted by misaligned incentives hidden throughout the development, deployment, and diffusion of a new technology. CHT provides the lucid perspective and seasoned expertise needed to identify and transform the most critical incentives, so that society can reap the benefits of technology — and minimize harm.
Read more about the CHT perspective Creating Clarity
Define incentives at play within the tech ecosystem, from the psychological to societal level. CHT connects the dots across fields — policy, tech design, and psychology — to make complex issues more accessible so that people are empowered to act where they can.
Transforming Incentives
Identify and implement targeted interventions to produce systems-level change. CHT advocates for viable design- and policy-based alternatives to the status quo in the tech ecosystem. We equip decision-makers with systemic insights that allow tech harms to be remedied as they evolve.
Transforming Incentives
Identify and implement targeted interventions to produce systems-level change. CHT advocates for viable design- and policy-based alternatives to the status quo in the tech ecosystem. We equip decision-makers with systemic insights that allow tech harms to be remedied as they evolve.
AI: Humanity’s Challenge and Invitation
Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies humanity has ever created. Our work deconstructs the simplistic “promise” and “peril” narratives around AI, and brings into view the reality of how design vastly influences AI&rsqu
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