AI Expert Warns: “This Is The Last Mistake We’ll Ever Make” - Tristan Harris - #1079

What is the journey of how you arrived thinking about the problems of AI? Well, most people know me or our work through the film The Social Dilemma. And I used to be a design ethicist at Google in 2012, 2013. So that basically meant How do you ethically design technology that is going to reshape especially the attention and information environment of humanity?

So it's like, there I was at Google. It was 2012, 2013. This is in the heat of the kind of social media boom. I think Instagram had just been bought by Facebook. My friends in college started Instagram.

So like I was part of this cohort and milieu of people who really built this technology that the rest of the world just thought was natural. Like this is just drinking water. Like I just drink Instagram. I just live in this environment.

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