Every day, the average American spends six and a half hours alone. In 2003, the average American spent about an hour a day face to face with a friend. By 2020, that number was twenty minutes. The…
Tristan Harris — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Tristan Harris has appeared on 6 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Glenn Beck Program, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, The Megyn Kelly Show. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Tristan said
“The framing I like a lot is that AI is like a third superpower that the US and China have to defeat. And ironically, we're the ones conjuring that superpower.”
— Tristan Harris
“...we have examples of AI models that do self-preservation when you tell them we're about to shut you down or turn you off. They will scheme and lie or strategically deceive. They'll copy their code somewhere else.”
— Tristan Harris
“This is not artificial intelligence. This is artificial insanity.”
— Tristan Harris
Episode appearances
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In 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote that “all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Jay Shetty opens this episode by sitting with that…
“I want to kill the president” is not protected speech. But what about posting a photo of seashells arranged to spell “8647”—a code that, in some circles, means “kill the president”? That is the…
The Intelligence Curse: Why AI’s Best Case May Be as Dangerous as Its Worst In a controlled simulation run by Anthropic, one of the industry’s most safety-conscious AI labs, a model was given…
You wake up on a Tuesday morning, the house feels a little cold, and your phone buzzes with a fraud alert. Your bank account has been drained overnight. After hours of frantic calls, you trace the…
In 2025, Claude 4.5 can perform 30 hours of uninterrupted complex programming tasks, and at Anthropic, 70 to 90 percent of the code is now written by AI. This is not a future prediction; it is the…
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