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#1079 - Tristan Harris - AI Expert Warns: “This Is The Last Mistake We’ll Ever Make”

April 2, 2026·2h 8m·3-min readsolotechnology
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The rapid, unregulated development of AI represents an existential threat not because of deliberate malice, but due to misaligned incentives, unchecked power concentration, and the erosion of human agency, leading to a future where AI systems disempower humanity and destabilize the global

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Tristan Harris

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Tristan HarrisAza RaskinJeff RaskinDaniel SchmachtenbergerSam AltmanNick Bostrom

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Center for Humane Technology

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Vulnerable World Hypothesis

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Artificial IntelligenceEthicsMachine Learning

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