The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raj. So what if you could no longer trust the things you see and hear? I'm not talking about conspiracy theories. I'm talking about the breakdown of what we now consider to be hard facts. Evidence.

What if you couldn't trust the signature on a check, the documents or videos presented in court, the footage you see on the news? the calls you receive from your family because they could all be perfectly forged by artificial intelligence. The breakdown of trust in our society That's just one of the risks that could be headed our way as AI gets smarter and smarter, and

That's why my guest today, Tristan Harris is sounding the alarm about the rapid development of AI. This episode is part two of my conversation with Tristan. He's the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, and if you haven't listened to part one yet, you'll want to go back and listen to that first. In that episode, Tristan talked about how so many of the technological tools we use every day, things like social media and search engines, were designed to grab as much of our attention as possible. And that's had some really damaging effects on our society. We also talked about the exponential development of AI and

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