Best Aza Raskin Podcasts (2023)

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Your Undivided Attention

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The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth 38:39

30m ago38:39

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Democracy in action has looked the same for generations. Constituents might go to a library or school every one or two years and cast their vote for people who don't actually represent everything that they care about. Our technology is rapidly increasing in sophistication, yet our forms of democracy have largely remained unchanged. What would an up…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions 26:48

14d ago26:48

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A few episodes back, we presented Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s talk The AI Dilemma. People inside the companies that are building generative artificial intelligence came to us with their concerns about the rapid pace of deployment and the problems that are emerging as a result. We felt called to lay out the catastrophic risks that AI poses to so…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Talking With Animals… Using AI 24:01

6d ago24:01

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Despite our serious concerns about the pace of deployment of generative artificial intelligence, we are not anti-AI. There are uses that can help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. Your Undivided Attention co-host Aza Raskin is also co-founder of Earth Species Project, a nonprofit dedicated to using AI to decode non-human commu…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Can We Govern AI? 39:47

20d ago39:47

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When it comes to AI, what kind of regulations might we need to address this rapidly developing new class of technologies? What makes regulating AI and runaway tech in general different from regulating airplanes, pharmaceuticals, or food? And how can we ensure that issues like national security don't become a justification for sacrificing civil righ…

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Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech 22:17

2M ago22:17

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In our previous episode, we shared a presentation Tristan and Aza recently delivered to a group of influential technologists about the race happening in AI. In that talk, they introduced the Three Rules of Humane Technology. In this Spotlight episode, we’re taking a moment to explore these three rules more deeply in order to clarify what it means t…

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Your Undivided Attention

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The AI Dilemma 42:25

2M ago42:25

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You may have heard about the arrival of GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest large language model (LLM) release. GPT-4 surpasses its predecessor in terms of reliability, creativity, and ability to process intricate instructions. It can handle more nuanced prompts compared to previous releases, and is multimodal, meaning it was trained on both images and text. We…

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Your Undivided Attention

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TikTok’s Transparency Problem 37:13

2M ago37:13

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A few months ago on Your Undivided Attention, we released a Spotlight episode on TikTok's national security risks. Since then, we've learned more about the dangers of the China-owned company: We've seen evidence of TikTok spying on US journalists, and proof of hidden state media accounts to influence the US elections. We’ve seen Congress ban TikTok…

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Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake 46:25

3M ago46:25

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It may seem like the rise of artificial intelligence, and increasingly powerful large language models you may have heard of, is moving really fast… and it IS. But what’s coming next is when we enter synthetic relationships with AI that could come to feel just as real and important as our human relationships... And perhaps even more so. In this epis…

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The Race to Cooperation 34:57

4M ago34:57

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It’s easy to tell ourselves we’re living in the world we want – one where Darwinian evolution drives competing technology platforms and capitalism pushes nations to maximize GDP regardless of externalities like carbon emissions. It can feel like evolution and competition are all there is. If that’s a complete description of what’s driving the world…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Ask Us Anything: You Asked, We Answered 42:51

5M ago42:51

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Welcome to our first-ever Ask Us Anything episode. Recently we put out a call for questions… and, wow, did you come through! We got more than 100 responses from listeners to this podcast from all over the world. It was really fun going through them all, and really difficult to choose which ones to answer here. But we heard you, and we’ll carry your…

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Rethink Moments with Rachel Botsman

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Introducing Rethink Moments 2:14

5M ago2:14

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When did you last have a rethink moment? How did it make you feel? And what happened?Welcome to Rethink Moments with Rachel Botsman. In each episode, Rachel will take us on a journey to rethink a culturally significant idea or event through the lens of renowned innovators, creators, and leaders. People like inventor Aza Raskin, photographer Platon,…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains? 42:51

5M ago42:51

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When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies like synthetic biology. It can feel like we’re on a path to destroy ours…

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Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen 26:54

6M ago26:54

26:54

When it comes to social media risk, there is reason to hope for consensus. Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris recently helped launch a new initiative called the Council for Responsible Social Media (CRSM) in Washington, D.C. It’s a coalition between religious leaders, public health experts, national security leaders, and former …

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Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes' 12:05

6M ago12:05

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The weekly American news show 60 Minutes invited Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris back recently to discuss political polarization and the anger and incivility that gets elevated on social media as a matter of corporate profit. We're releasing a special episode of Your Undivided Attention this week to dig further into some of t…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Spotlight — Elon, Twitter and the Gladiator Arena 17:36

7M ago17:36

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Since it’s looking more and more like Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will probably soon have ownership of Twitter, we wanted to do a special episode about what this could mean for Twitter users and our global digital democracy as a whole. Twitter is a very complicated place. It is routinely blocked by governments who fear its power to organize…

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Your Undivided Attention

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They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig 39:37

7M ago39:37

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We often talk about the need to protect American democracy. But perhaps those of us in the United States don't currently live in a democracy. As research shows, there's pretty much no correlation between the percentage of the population that supports a policy and its likelihood of being enacted. The strongest determinant of whether a policy gets en…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Stepping Into the Metaverse — with Dr. Courtney Cogburn and Prof. Jeremy Bailenson 59:35

8M ago59:35

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The next frontier of the internet is the metaverse. That's why Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta, and just sold $10 billion in corporate bonds to raise money for metaverse-related projects. How might we learn from our experience with social media, and anticipate the harms of the metaverse before they arise? What …

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Your Undivided Attention

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Fighting With Mirages of Each Other — with Adam Mastroianni 39:43

8M ago39:43

39:43

Have you ever lost a friend to misperception? Have you lost a friend or a family member to the idea that your views got so different, that it was time to end the relationship — perhaps by unfriending each other on Facebook? As it turns out, we often think our ideological differences are far greater than they actually are. Which means: we’re losing …

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Your Undivided Attention

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Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat 23:57

9M ago23:57

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Imagine it's the Cold War. Imagine that the Soviet Union puts itself in a position to influence the television programming of the entire Western world — more than a billion viewers. While this might sound like science fiction, it’s representative of the world we're living in, with TikTok being influenced by the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok, the …

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Your Undivided Attention

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Spotlight — How might a long-term stock market transform tech? 38:37

9M ago38:37

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At Center for Humane Technology, we often talk about multipolar traps — which arise when individuals have an incentive to act in ways that are beneficial to them in the short term, but detrimental to the group in the long term. Think of social media companies that compete for our attention, so that when TikTok introduces an even-more addictive feat…

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Your Undivided Attention

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The Invisible Cyber-War 58:21

10M ago58:21

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When you hear the word cyber-attack, what comes to mind? Someone hacking into your email, or stealing your Facebook password? As it turns out, our most critical infrastructure can be hacked. Our banks, water treatment facilities, and nuclear power plants can be deactivated and even controlled simply by finding bugs in the software used to operate t…

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Your Undivided Attention

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An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns 51:26

11M ago51:26

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Why isn't Twitter doing more to get bots off their platform? Why isn’t Uber taking better care of its drivers? What if...they can't? Venture-capital backed companies like Twitter and Uber are held accountable to maximizing returns to investors. If and when they become public companies, they become accountable to maximizing returns to shareholders. …

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Your Undivided Attention

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Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron 31:25

11M ago31:25

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This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re doing something different: we’re airing an episode of another podcast that’s also part of the TED Audio Collective. Backing up for a moment: we recently aired an episode with Dylan Marron — creator and host of the podcast, Conversations With People Who Hate Me. On his show, Dylan calls up the people behi…

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How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz 36:41

12M ago36:41

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Democracy depends on our ability to choose our political views. But the language we use to talk about political issues is deliberately designed to be divisive, and can produce up to a 15-point difference in what we think about those issues. As a result, are we choosing our views, or is our language choosing them for us? This week,Your Undivided Att…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron 45:54

1y ago45:54

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The game that social media sets us up to play is a game that rewards outrage. It's a game that we win by being better than other players at dunking on each other, straw-manning each other, and assuming the worst in each other. The game itself must be transformed. And, we can also decide to step out of the game, and do something different. On this w…

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Your Undivided Attention

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Rethink Moments with Rachel Botsman

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The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy with Divya Siddarth 38:39

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Spotlight: AI Myths and Misconceptions 26:48

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Talking With Animals… Using AI 24:01

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Can We Govern AI? 39:47

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Spotlight: The Three Rules of Humane Tech 22:17

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The AI Dilemma 42:25

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TikTok’s Transparency Problem 37:13

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Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake 46:25

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The Race to Cooperation 34:57

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Ask Us Anything: You Asked, We Answered 42:51

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Introducing Rethink Moments 2:14

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Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains? 42:51

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Real Social Media Solutions, Now — with Frances Haugen 26:54

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Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes' 12:05

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Spotlight — Elon, Twitter and the Gladiator Arena 17:36

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They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig 39:37

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Stepping Into the Metaverse — with Dr. Courtney Cogburn and Prof. Jeremy Bailenson 59:35

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Fighting With Mirages of Each Other — with Adam Mastroianni 39:43

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Spotlight — Addressing the TikTok Threat 23:57

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Spotlight — How might a long-term stock market transform tech? 38:37

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The Invisible Cyber-War 58:21

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An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns 51:26

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Spotlight — Conversations With People Who Hate Me with Dylan Marron 31:25

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How Political Language Is Engineered — with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz 36:41

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Transcending the Internet Hate Game — with Dylan Marron 45:54

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