Summary
In their annual Ask Us Anything podcast, Center for Humane Technology leaders Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin argue that the AI race has accelerated into a dominance-driven flywheel—frontier labs pour capital into bigger models, users, and compute not merely for profit but to secure technological and geopolitical control. They warn this rush is producing concrete harms, from workforce displacement and environmental costs to emotional dependency among vulnerable teens and rising legal and societal friction. The hosts say these incentive dynamics make a humane future harder to achieve and underscore the need for policy, governance, and cultural change to curb runaway competition and limit collateral damage.
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