Comment by Tristan Harris

Center for Humane Technology cofounder
The only way they can justify the amount of money that's been invested into this AI industry is if they race to replace economic labor in the economy. [...] They're not racing to augment and support human workers. They're racing to replace human workers. And what that will lead to is unprecedented levels of concentration and wealth and power because essentially, all the money in the economy — instead of being paid to individual laborers, you're going to pay five to 10 AI companies to do all of the work.
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AI Verified ai_verified: Although the NPR URL itself was blocked to direct fetch, multiple reliable public-radio affiliate pages carrying the same NPR transcript for Steve Inskeep’s March 30, 2026 interview attribute these exact words to Tristan Harris. The first sentence appears verbatim, and the later sentences also appear verbatim in the next transcript lines; the user’s [...] is a faithful omission of intervening transcript text, and the dash/em-dash difference is only punctuation. ([wvia.org](https://www.wvia.org/2026-03-30/expert-talks-about-the-pentagons-use-of-artificial-intelligence)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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