Tristan Harris Congress Testimony: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology 

This guy deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. He is trying to save humanity from robots.

Ironically it's the RU-vid persuasion machine that brought my attention to your work. Thank you for doing such a good job of articulating these ideas and expressing them to our elected representatives.

This was over 4 years ago and still nothing has been done and now we even have even more capable ai technologies. It's been a hell of a life folks, Godspeed!

I bow before this man. His work is true Service to humanity, what a great soul!

This guy is a natural leader representing humanity's future. Top man. Top perception. We as humanity need more respect to our fellow animal Kingdom. Top discussion.

This conversation with our leadership should happen yearly at the very minimum. Ideally more and longer.

That mic drop was so hard I think I've got permanent brain damage. I don't think I can ever forget the last words - with great power comes no responsibility. Brilliant. Strongest end to a video I've seen in years

A great speaker. Tied in personal story telling and used great examples to people who wouldn't necessarily understand the tech. Super clear too. Exactly what's needed 👏

Thanks for sharing. Irony is, I found this via recommendation while scrolling.

I wish there was a guy like this representing every problem we are facing as a race.

Tristan Harris is not a national treasure -- is is a global treasure !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally someone who eloquently breaks down the dangers of the power of a free economy system. Algorithms as mass data analyzers set up to keep consumers in the loop. How are we supposed to fight a machine built to hijack our neural reward system with information fighting for our attention around every corner? It’s becoming increasingly complex to stay engaged in modern society while maintaining a more grounded relation to our minds, bodies and nature.

Tristan and everyone at CfHT are national heroes trying to save us from the singularity.

If the algorithm recommended this video to you, I like u.

"We have paleolithic ancient emotions, mediaeval institutions and godlike technology"-well said

Eloquent, coherent, reasonable. The Senators were listening.

Man, this guy is incredibly well spoken !

When you hear the last question an realize this testimony was from 2019 and it could have just been from yesterday. 🤯 Now we are at the advent of advanced and widely accessible AI and LLMs, and we have not yet learned from or fixed our past social media and societal failures.

Great summary statement at the end! "With great power, came NO responsibility"!

This testimony was amazing! Please reccommend me more stuff like this, algoritm!

The people behind him are certainly illustrating his point about social media being so engaging that you can’t resist constantly picking up the phone.

"The polarization of our society is actually part of the business model." That's a very scary notion.

Thanks Tristan! Keep speaking truth to power.

Tristan Harris you are doing incredibly important work! The world needs more people like you!

Thank you for posting! It is so great to see someone being so articulate and passionate about SUCH an important matter. As a young person looking towards the future, seeing this gives me more hope!

Extraordinary. Public schools should be engaging with Humane Technology. Tristan is boss when it comes to logical thinking/critical thinking for ordinary people. He’s beautiful to listen to & to hear.

Hats off Mr. Harris! Brilliant, insightful and articulate. I don't know how you make it look so easy, but thank you so very much for your diligent laboring to get humanity snap out of its most scary nightmare.

Amazing! Thank you! We demand data and algorithmic rights!

He described this in a way I love him as a speaker he's amazing ty

Thank you Tristan 🎉🎉🎉

So well spoken Tristan! So glad you’re in the room! 🎉

Amen, may God bless you for service!

This is exactly the type of content youtube should recommend

We need fundamental changes to patent, copyright and advertising laws and we need a philosophical revolution among the designer class.

This Guy is amazing, i love how he see the details that i can't see

This testimony is absolutely worth taking a look at, and one that sure gives deep insights on the effects of social media technology. Especially after watching his TED talk and listening to some of his other talks, how we treat and use our phones should be one of those things in life that we ought to start paying attention to ASAP

Thanks Tristan - great speech!

Excellent! Tristan Harris ought to be recommended as a candidate to lead a department on regulating social media platforms and the development of AI…

Wow! Just, wow! Stunning!

Tristan is a thought leader and maverick to go against the grain. Bravo!

Thank you Tristan😊

Stellar! A brilliant assessment from keen insights.

thank you, Tristan and senators, it gives me hope watching such discussions started.

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy? One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind. I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist. So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark. In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all. The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise. Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct. Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

Loved every second of this.

I wonder how this discourse would have gone today (4 years later)

Found this channel via the A.I. Dilemma March 9 video. Now I'm watching this video because I am morally outraged. Attention successfully captured. You may advance to the next level.

I wish every contribution in congress to be at least as eloquent, factual and concise as this.

When I first used RU-vid I was disturbed that I could not search for topics that I was interested in, I was limited by what RU-vid wanted me to be interested in.

I’m glad RU-vid recommended this

People shoukd be more aware of him and his goal. This is to save our sacred "Attention" on a global scale. Im reading the book "Stolen Focus" now and its something we all kind of figured (some not at all) but the book goes so in depth its insane

Brilliant

bring this discussion to all countries, we must be aware and we must be unfinished, not constrained by limitations that only benefit some.

Yes!

thank you!

Bro perfectly creates long statements. Very good speaker. Content also valid.

Thanks

Fantastic 👏👏👏👏👏

A.I is Inevitable! I hope good things come from it!

I'm happy that you tube recommended me this video! 😊

this is very important

I love that my RU-vid algo recommended this

He did a good job with explaining how our data is used to predict future behaviors and how it is used against you .

indeed, Heaven knows, it knows us so well that all of our behaviors and all of our reactions and gestures have been throughly studied. You know when you get that uneasy feeling around somebody.. that can be projected in just like scripting somebodies speech who is identified in the moment... it IS true... it is just unseen.

Excellent

Wow, so eloquent and this was in 2019

Things need to change.

This guy is important

A modern hero!

Solid as ever.

"with (a symmetry of) Great Power comes NO responsibility" 🏆

Crazy that June 2019 is now 4 YEARS AGO

How does this not have 500 million views...

Wow great points my man

Quoting Uncle Ben in front of congress... amazing.

It is encouraging to see gov is trying to get a grip on big tech by understanding what unwanted side effects tech has. Unfortunately the fact is that people in the A.I. field are underestimating the speed that A.I. is developing with. I hope gov comes to the conclusion that we have to hit the brakes when it comes to exposing people to these crazy powerful tools.

Even what Mr Harris considers calm town is not exactly trustworthy. Doctor Frankstein is building a moster in every sides. Sometimes by recommendation of algorithmic culture, sometimes by the bias introduced by hand under some FBI's command as Twitter Files have shown. Great topic to go further. Just met your ideas and started following. Thanks.

Tristen Harris should run for Congress!! 🇺🇸

good point

He and his team is a real hero

This is so friggin important

Dear RU-vid, why is this video not viral?

OMG---this was talked about in 2019 and now its 2023 and still absolutely NOTHING has been done to regulate these social media companies.

This man comes across 100 times smarter and more self educated on this matter then anyone in that room. Matter a fact anyone I’ve ever seen. edit: I wonder if I’d agree with this regulatory technique’s.

i hope the future breaks free from technology and social media

I agree with tristan harris like that is what they do and I hope one day this ends and great video man :]

Please please listen to Tristan Harris and SHARE his insights ❤

The people glued to their smartphones behind him is the cherry on top 😅

Interesting!

What a well spoken articulate... Dont worry though Congress fighting wokeness is top prioirty! Chimps with nooks We re doomed.

We live in interesting times ....

So what do we do, youtube comment section? I was once again very motivated to not write anything and just go about my day. I litterally think i can feel my attention getting caped, like long term. I feel so hopeless and the only thing i can think of doing is leaving a youtube comment. I guess my take on what to do is to endorce good faith discussion. Notice also the youtube comments on almost every video, how short form they are, even on very complex and interesting videoes such as this.

Yes a lot of polarization

Great person tell the truth how the AI supercomputer impacted human mind set

I’m so glad that the RU-vid algorithm made the mistake of knowing that I wanted to watch this video. This is the last video I’m watching today.

These facts are all terrifyingly true

Is there a whole live stream of this hearing to watch on youtube? I can't find it

The elucidation of the digital Panopticon

Wait this was 4 years ago. Any significant progress on these concerns on a legislative and ideally international evel?

Thank you for doing this and making people aware of how this works. I know I will be more conscious of not going to that next video or scrolling. And on a side note, in light of the new information and *real* science coming out now, it would seem those anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists were actually correct.