Tristan Harris

I think in the future, we’re going to need to audit technology products in terms of how they actually stimulate our nervous system. Unverified source (2019)

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)

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)

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)

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)