Tristan Harris

What are we beating them to? We're beating them to something that we don't know how to control and we are not on track to control. Unverified source (2026)

They're not racing to augment and support human workers. They're racing to replace human workers. [...] [This] will lead to unprecedented levels of concentration and wealth and power because essentially, all the money in the economy — instead of bein... more Unverified source (2026)

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 ... more Unverified source (2026)

Do you have to listen to the people's political power if you don't get your tax revenue from the people anymore, you get it from AI companies? And if companies — you can't use your bargaining power. You can't, like, withdraw your labor like a labor u... more Unverified source (2026)

After Anthropic said, we don't want to support mass domestic surveillance of Americans and we don't want to support autonomous weapons, you'll notice that Sam Altman jumped right in and said, we'll sell ChatGPT to the government to do both of those t... more Unverified source (2026)

I think in the future, we’re going to need to audit technology products in terms of how they actually stimulate our nervous system. AI Unverifiable source (2020)

We are extremely close to recursive self-improvement right now. The companies, I think, are planning to do this in the next 12 months. The asteroid is coming for Earth. Unverified source (2026)

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 work... more Unverified source (2026)

Anthropic actually has been the safest of them all and tried to and cares most about getting alignment right, et cetera. But you're also seeing them continue to decide to release the models, even with a lot of the misaligned behaviour that they're se... more Unverified source (2026)