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Tristan Harris

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Tristan Harris

@tristanharris

• Co-founder @HumaneTech_ • Former Google Design Ethicist • Featured in Netflix's @SocialDilemma_ • #TIME100 for AI • Host #YourUndividedAttention podcast

San Francisco

Joined May 2007

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Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
Apr 13, 2023
Today we’re releasing “The A.I. Dilemma” – a new talk @aza and I gave on 3/9, a week before GPT4 launched. *Pls share it widely.* It's critical for institutions to understand how the race between AI labs is accelerating the likelihood of catastrophe: youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj…
Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
Jul 21
Concerning...
elie
@eliebakouch
Jul 21
this is actually insane, the model broke hugging face prod infrastructure to get access to the eval dataset
Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
Jul 21
I joined 200 economists and AI researchers in signing “We Must Act Now: A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy,” calling for greater investment in understanding the economic impacts of increasingly capable AI and urgently building the incentives, guardrails, and
wemustactnow.ai
We Must Act Now
Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
Jun 23
Anthropic just called for the ability to “slow down” or even pause the Ai race when we might need it. But how would that happen? The problem is that no one can verify what anyone else is building or training or running, so no one feels that they can afford to slow down, even
Tristan Harris
@tristanharris
Jun 18
If you listen to folks in the AI labs right now, they’re all quietly terrified by the speed of AI development. Anthropic just published a letter openly asking for the option to pause or slow R&D because of how fast recursive self-improvement is coming but noting that they can’t
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