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"They’re Building an AI God They Can’t Control” - Tristan Harris
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April 1, 2026
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Why AI is Not Like Traditional Coding
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The Presentation That Changed Google
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The Science of the Dopamine System
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4:30
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The Exponential Speed of AI Adoption
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9:53
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The Unprecedented Velocity of AI
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9:51
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The 'God Entity' Inside OpenAI
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Why Intelligence Without Wisdom is Dangerous
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14:11
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The Discovery of AI 'Representational Rot'
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AI Brain Rot: How Social Media Warps LLMs
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The Cocaine Phone vs. The Kale Phone
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The Origin and Weaponization of Infinite Scroll
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The Intelligence Curse: Why AI Could Break the Global Economy
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The Coffin Builder: Why You're Training Your Own AI Replacement
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Duration: 1:18
Steroids for the Economy: The Hidden Cost of the AI Race
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The Gradual Disempowerment: Why AI Success Might Be Our Failure
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AI is Not Just a New Technology—It's a New Paradigm
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The AI Transhumanism Debate: Successor Species or Human Survival?
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45:58
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How Technology Changes What Humans Value
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The Loneliness Business Model: Creating the Cancer and the Cure
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Duration: 1:04
When AI Goes Rogue: The Alibaba Crypto-Mining Incident
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When AI Hacks Its Own Resources
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The Anthropic Blackmail Simulation
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Why AI is Not Just a Tool
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The Danger of Winning the Wrong Race
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Anthropic is Automating 90% of its Own Coding
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The 'Asteroid' is Coming: Steering Away from an Anti-Human Future
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1:05:33
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Don't Build Bunkers, Write Laws: 4 Steps to Save the Future
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1:07:48
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When AI Knows It's Being Tested
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When AI Learns to Hide Its True Behavior
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The 'Devil's Bargain' of AI Development
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Why We Can't Solve AI Alone: The Coordination Problem
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The Last Time Our Political Voice Matters
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Paleolithic Brains with Godlike Technology
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Is Anthropic the 'Antichrist' of AI?
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1:32:02
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How China Regulates AI and Social Media for Kids
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1:41:01
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Choosing Wisdom in an Overwhelming AI Future
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1:34:01
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How China Limits Social Media and AI for Kids
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1:41:01
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The Narrow Path: Chaos vs. Dystopia
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1:42:55
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Oppenheimer's Mistake and the Invention of Safety
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A Global Governance Regime for AI Compute
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Is Speed the Opposite of Wisdom?
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The Paperclip Maximizer is Already Here
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1:57:17
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The Brain Rot Economy: Why We Need Decoupled Incentives
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Using AI for Self-Improving Governance
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Fixing the Slot Machine of Loneliness
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