Tristan Harris

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 when they want to. The Cold War's answer was "trust, but verify." After the atomic bomb, some of our smartest minds had to invent *new verification tech* like satellites, seismic monitoring devices and X-Ray scanners so rivals didn't have to take each other's word at face value. We don’t have all the equivalents for AI yet, but this new TIME piece by Billy Perrigo profiles the handful of people trying to build these verification technologies — among them @Kristian_Ronn and Lucid Computing, working on cryptographic verification that could confirm AI labs are following the rules. Technology alone won't get us out of this. But verification might turn "slow down" from a slogan into something real and more people need to work on it. Worth your time. 👇

Read the piece here: time.com/article/2026/0…

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 do that without being able to verify that their competitors were doing the same. That’s why it’s critically important that we build the tech needed to verify AI agreements. On this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, I sat down with two experts on AI governance, @fiiiiiist and @janet_e_egan, to talk about the kinds of verification technology we need for AI, the challenges of building it, and the world it could unlock if we did. Given how critical verification technology is, you would assume there are thousands of people working in it. In reality, there’s only around fifty. We urgently need to put our attention, time, and energy into this critical area. Check out our full conversation: t.co/FimnY84Plw

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Help research and identify solutions to the ‘intelligence curse’ and gradual disempowerment from AI! ⬇️ x.com/luke_drago_/st…

Important area of near universal agreement. No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail. I am a proud signatory of this open letter. x.com/AlecStapp/stat…

Incredible work from @FLI_org on articulating a better "pro-human" path for AI, and the steps that various stakeholders can take to help us get there: betterpathfor.ai x.com/AnthonyNAguirr…

Important AI redline being crossed with new hacking x self-replication research from @PalisadeAI — stemming from significant increases in both of these AI capabilities over the last year. This is the kind of evidence, along with recent evidence of Mythos-level hacking, x.com/PalisadeAI/sta…

"AI will cure cancer" is one of the most potent, seductive arguments in the race to superintelligence. I lost my mother to cancer in 2018. When someone tells me a technology might have saved her — might save someone else's mother next year — every part of me wants to believe it.

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Exciting news! @theaidocfilm is now available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video, or wherever you get your movies on demand. If you missed the theatrical release, you can now watch this urgent film at home. Invite your friends, your family, your church group, your business

Apple TV: tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-a…

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're bringing you a recent conversation @aza and I had with @Oprah on The Oprah Podcast, where we went deep into the anti-human future that the current AI path is moving us toward. This was an audience of about 150 people who saw a

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