Your Undivided Attention
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The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI
September 17, 2026 · 21 minIt’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. Weeks after a series of hacking incidents by rogue agents at OpenAI and Anthropic, we’ve seen a cascade of top AI researchers blow the whistle on what they call the catastrophic and even existential…
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Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing
September 10, 2026 · 59 minIn a 2018 TED Talk, Yuval Harari argued that democracy prevailed over fascism and communism in the 20th century not because of any inherent advantage, but because the technology of that age favored open and democratic societies. It was…
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We Measure What AI Can Do. We Should Measure What It Does to Us.
August 27, 2026 · 47 minIn AI, what gets measured gets optimized. Right now, we're spending all our efforts to measure how capable and powerful models are, narrowly optimizing for those metrics while ignoring downstream consequences. What if we could flip this…
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Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle.
August 13, 2026 · 58 minIt feels like we’re stuck in an endless debate about what AI is going to mean for jobs and the economy. The prediction you hear from the people closest to the technology — both its critics and its boosters — is that mass automation is…
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Can AI Be Built in Service of Life? A Conversation with Krista Tippett
July 16, 2026 · 54 minThis week, we're bringing you a conversation that Tristan Harris had with Krista Tippett. Krista is the Peabody Award-winning host of the On Being podcast, where she explores spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry, and the…
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“Magnifica Humanitas:” Pope Leo’s Clarion Call on AI
July 2, 2026 · 31 minSince stepping into the Papacy, Pope Leo XIV has been a forceful voice pushing back against the anti-human path we’re on with AI. In May, he released “Magnifica Humanitas,” a sprawling encyclical warning of the dangers to human dignity and…
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We Need AI Treaties. This is How We Get Them
June 18, 2026 · 51 minIn the middle of the twentieth century, the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons seemed inevitable. The number of countries with nukes was climbing rapidly, and the idea of stopping the nuclear arms race seemed like a pipe…
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What Do We Mean by Humane Tech?
June 4, 2026 · 52 minWe often think of the challenges created by technology as separate and disconnected, so trying to solve them feels like playing the world's hardest game of Whac-A-Mole. What if, instead, we tackled them at the root by identifying the…