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Silicon Valley’s Conscience: The Guy Warning Us Before AI Goes Off the Rails
Tristan Harris has been called Silicon Valley’s conscience, which is hilarious, because Silicon Valley acts like it didn’t order one. He’s the former Google insider who helped expose how social media hijacked our attention, rewired our behavior, and quietly turned society into a psychological funhouse.
Now he’s sounding a bigger alarm: AI isn’t inevitable, it’s a choice. And if we don’t make better choices, we might end up with the algorithmic version of World War III. Not killer robots, just runaway incentives, unregulated systems, and a whole lot of “Wow, we really should’ve seen that coming.”
This episode breaks down who Tristan Harris is, why he’s been warning us for a decade, and what he thinks we need to do before AI becomes the next global disaster we pretend nobody could’ve predicted.
Not doomsday. Not sci fi panic. Just a guy trying to keep humanity from speed running its own sequel to the social media mess.
“Before AI Goes Off the Rails”
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