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The 'Your Undivided Attention' podcast by the Center for Humane Technology explores AI risks, social media harms, and governance, featuring discussions with AI safety researchers like Yoshua Bengio and policy advocates, making it a public-facing resource bridging AI safety concerns with broader societal impact.

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Your Undivided Attention is a podcast hosted by Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, and Daniel Barcay from the Center for Humane Technology. It covers the societal risks of emerging technologies including AI and social media, featuring conversations with researchers, policymakers, and advocates. Recent episodes address AI existential risk, education disruption, legal accountability for addictive design, and pathways to a safer AI future.

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  • •Hosted by CHT's Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, the podcast bridges AI safety concerns with public policy and societal impact discussions.
  • •Recent episodes feature AI safety researchers like Yoshua Bengio discussing existential risks of uncontrolled AI development.
  • •Covers legal and regulatory developments, including Meta/Google liability verdicts for addictive design harming children.
  • •Explores concrete policy roadmaps for safer AI futures, including CHT's policy team recommendations.
  • •Addresses AI's impact on education, collective intelligence, and the need for aligned technology governance.

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Center for Humane Technologymedia-reachYour Undivided Attention podcast: 25+ million total downloads, 151 episodes, part of TED Audio Collective2026

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 Co-hosts Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, and Daniel Barcay explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into both our lives and a humane future. Join us every other Thursday as we confront challenges and explore solutions with a wide range of thought leaders and change-makers.

 Your Undivided Attention is produced by Executive Producer Sasha Fegan and Senior Producer Julia Scott. Our Researcher/Producer is Josh Lash.

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 Why the Meta Verdicts Are a Big Deal (And What It Was Like to Testify)

 Meta and Google have been found liable for addictive design and failing to protect children and Aza took the stand as a witness. Is this the Big Tobacco moment for social media? Tristan and Aza discuss the verdicts, what the companies knew and when, and why the critical phase is still to come. 131

 Here’s Our Roadmap to a Better AI Future

 In this episode, Camille Carlton and Pete Furlong from CHT’s policy team explore the concrete steps we can take today to get off the default path and forge a better AI future. 129

 A Conversation with the Team Behind "The AI Doc"

 "The AI Doc" hits theaters March 27. We talk with the Oscar-winning team behind the film about navigating AI's overwhelming complexity and making it accessible to all. At CHT, we believe clarity creates agency. This film delivers that clarity. Go see it — and don't go alone. Stay up to date

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 AI Is Breaking Education. Rebecca Winthrop Has the Blueprint to Fix It.

 AI is already transforming education faster than schools can keep up. Rebecca Winthrop of Brookings' Center for Universal Education joins us to share findings from their new report and the concrete steps parents, teachers, and administrators can take right now. 127

 The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

 Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI, followed by a panel discussion between Tristan and Professor Yoshua Bengio and moderated by Kenneth Cukier of The Economist, about how the race to build uncontrolled AI has real-world consequences for us all. 127

 FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

 Aza joins Reid Hoffman & Aria Finger on the "Possible" podcasts to debate an AI pause, how software optimization controls our lives, and why we need aligned collective intelligence—not just aligned AI. This is a critical conversation with tech leaders about steering technology toward better outcomes. Help us design a better future at the intersection of technology and humanity

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