Tristan Harris on Protecting Human Health in the Age of AI
Gordon Medical Forum

Tristan Harris on Protecting Human Health in the Age of AI

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202657 min

Dr. Eric Gordon and Dr. Nafysa Parpia talk with Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and creator of "The Social Dilemma" and "The AI Dilemma," about a subject that might feel far from this podcast's usual territory, but what's unfolding with AI right now felt too timely and too relevant to sit out Tristan uses the same tool he used in 2013 to predict, with unsettling accuracy, how social media would damage a generation of kids. Look at the incentives, and the outcome follows. That same tool now points somewhere uncomfortable, since the...

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Welcome to the Gordon Medical Forum. In this episode, Dr. Eric Gordon and Dr. Nafisa Parpia sit down with Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology

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and the creator of the Social Dilemma and the AI Dilemma. The episode goes somewhere new for us, but for good reason. Tristan saw the harms of social media coming years before anyone else did.

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And given what's now coming to light about AI, his warning feels more relevant than ever. Thank you for joining us and here's Dr. Eric Ordon, Dr. Nafisa Parpia and Tristan Harris. Welcome everyone.

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