Tristan Harris

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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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. AI Verified 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)

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 AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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 AI Unverifiable source (2026)