I'm an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That's why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people's minds from… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
I was a design ethicist at Google, where I studied how do you ethically steer people's thoughts? Because what we don't talk about is how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and message amplification… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
For any company whose business model is advertising, or engagement-based advertising, meaning they care about the amount of time someone spends on the product,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the second question,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It's possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people's thoughts… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
You're either on, and you're connected and distracted all the time, or you're off, but then you're wondering, am I missing something important? In… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
We want to have a relationship with technology that gives us back choice about how we spend time with it, and we're going to… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
