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

Apr 2, 2026 · 2h 8m · YouTube

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0:00What is the journey of how you arrived thinking about the problems of AI?

0:08Well, most people know me or our work through the film The Social Dilemma.

0:13And I used to be a design ethicist at Google in 2012, 2013.

0:20So that basically meant how do you ethically design technology that is going to reshape, especially the attention and information environment of humanity?

0:30So it's like, there I was at Google.

0:31It was 2012, 2013.

0:33This is in the heat of the kind of social media boom.

0:36I think Instagram had just been bought by Facebook.

0:39My friends in college started Instagram.

0:40So like I was part of this cohort and milieu of people who really built this technology that the rest of the world just thought was natural.

0:49Like this is just drinking water.

0:50Like I just drink Instagram.

0:51I just live in this environment.

0:53And so while like I saw billions of people enter into this psychological habitat that I knew the handful of like five or six people that were designing and tweaking it and making it work a certain way.

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