Comment by Tristan Harris

Center for Humane Technology cofounder
If you're worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be way more worried about AI. [...] It's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize–level capability, work at superhuman speed, and will work for less than minimum wage. [...] The default path is companies racing to release the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology we've ever invented with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety.
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AI Verified Verified. The supplied Fortune article contains both quoted passages and attributes them to Tristan Harris: it quotes, “If you’re worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be way more worried about AI” and “It’s like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants … work at superhuman speed, and will work for less than minimum wage,” and separately, “The default path is companies racing to release the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology we’ve ever invented with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety.” Fortune says these remarks came from Harris’s November 2025 appearance on The Diary of a CEO, and an independent transcript of that interview closely matches the same wording and attribution. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/ai-taking-jobs-report-tristan-harris-google-ethicist-agi-technology/?queryly=related_article)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (Fortune) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology cofounder, compared AI to "a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize-level capability, work at superhuman speed, and will work for less than minimum wage" in a February 2026 Fortune article. The quote about companies "racing to release the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology" is also confirmed. Vote direction (against) is correct since Harris warns about AI displacing jobs at an unprecedented scale. Year (2026) and author attribution are correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Tristan Harris about AI as "digital immigrants" with "Nobel Prize-level capability." Web search confirms this from Fortune article (Feb 10, 2026) at the provided URL. Harris is confirmed as Center for Humane Technology cofounder. The quote was also discussed on The Diary of a CEO podcast (Nov 2025). Vote "against" is correctly aligned -- Harris warns AI will take jobs faster than immigration and with greater capability. Year 2026 is current. Quote is relevant to statement 389. Note: This is a second quote from the same author alongside opinion 8966. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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