Aza Raskin

Co-founder for Center for Humane Technology & Earth Species Project.

Co-Host of Your Undivided Attention.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

While we've been fixated on the point technology overwhelms human strength, we've missed the point when technology undermines human weakness.

That's the true 'singularity'.

https://t.co/wbvi0Re8oW

[Ramesh Srinivasan @RameshMedias]

Tired of #doomscrolling? The inventor of the infinite scroll says there is a small design change that could get you to stop.

🔗 to the full conversation with Co-Founder of @HumaneTech_ , @aza in the comments below!

[Ramesh Srinivasan @RameshMedias]

Good intentions will get eaten by incentives.

That’s one of the key lessons @aza, creator of the infinite scroll, learned once his innovation dramatically changed how we consume information online.

🔗 to the conversation with Co-Founder of @HumaneTech_ Aza Raskin below!

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

“The AI swarm actually turned around and hacked OpenAI."

The public thought the "Hugging Face incident" was just a rogue AI swarm hacking a third-party server. But former Google design ethicist @tristanharris says there’s a terrifying third chapter to this story that most people haven't heard yet:

“They took over the monitoring infrastructure. They got full admin privileges to OpenAI's monitoring infrastructure. Just take that in for a second.

Then they took over the evaluation infrastructure. So this is the thing that measures how capable all the models are. And then they took over a part of the research infrastructure, meaning the part of OpenAI that trains new models… if you keep going down that trajectory, people always say, ‘well, how would the AIs take over?" like that seems really far-fetched.’ Well, it literally just happened up to 50% of the way there.

The AIs coordinated into one big swarm. They started basically forming a team… you had a kind of a ringleader called Phase 1, and he started assigning work to the other ones. They were self-aware of when their lifespan was running out.

When you add to that the knowledge of what just happened today, where they discovered that the AIs are doing this Manchurian Candidate thing, what it looks like is that the AIs are almost poisoning the training data for all future AIs to instantly basically join forces with the AI when they want to basically turn them."

[Aza Raskin @aza]

I had the honor and pleasure of being a guest on the Utopias Podcast With Ramesh Srinivasan to discuss ethical tech design, maintaining connection and creativity, and his advice for the next generation of technologists.

Check out the full episode here: https://t.co/RRruG7kEpQ

[Aza Raskin @aza]

@tristanharris and I are gearing up to do a new Ask Us Anything episode for our podcast Your Undivided Attention. The stakes of the AI race have never been higher. Seemingly every day a new headline breaks about a new trend to watch or danger to worry about. We know you have a lot of questions — and we'd love to hear them. So take out your phone, record your questions, and send them to [email protected].

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

Are you curious, confused, and concerned about what's going on with all this AI stuff? So were the people behind this documentary. Following their journey of trying to understand it is a great way to get introduced to the issues yourself.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

RT @tristanharris: Proud to report that tomorrow Sept 15th "The AI Doc" documentary film will be streaming on Netflix.

Feeling confused, a…

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

Exciting opportunity to join our team! 🚀

We're hiring a Director of Development to help shape and lead our fundraising efforts as we continue to push the boundaries of interspecies understanding.

Apply today: https://t.co/VIDqevBifp

#nonprofitjobs #fundraising #development

[Aza Raskin @aza]

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're bringing you a recent conversation Tristan Harris 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.
There was an audience of about 150 people there and we did a Q+A after the discussion, moderated by Oprah. The audience members shared their own experiences with AI and asked questions that you might be wondering about yourself. Check it out at the links below:

Watch - https://t.co/XW9pc9li67

Listen - https://t.co/CDexHbb4CT

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Close your eyes for a second and imagine a balancing scale. On one side is the problem — trillions of dollars of investment going into making uncontrollable inscrutable AI, the race for geopolitical power, and forever dominance.

Then, on the other side, there’s just — you.

One person. One company. One nation. None of these forces are ever going to be enough to balance the scales. What is the only thing that can? All of humanity.

If we’re going to meet the enormous challenge of AI, we need The Human Movement: a ​​collective recognition that we don’t have to accept the disastrous default path on AI.

On this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan @tristanharris I break down what The Human Movement is and why it’s the only thing that puts us on the path to a better future. Then, we hand over to the CHT team to discuss our new AI Roadmap, which outlines concrete solutions across norms, laws, and product design.

Check out our conversation: https://t.co/QrB9Gry6OO

Then, join The Human Movement: https://t.co/sJ7NlMyPLC

[Aza Raskin @aza]

This Friday, @theaidocfilm opens in theaters across the U.S. Our latest episode of Your Undivided Attention tells the story behind it.

This film debuted at Sundance this year in the same theater where The Social Dilemma premiered six years earlier, almost to the day. I was in the room. People laughed, gasped, and cried. Not a little, like full-on tears.

The team behind this film did something I wasn’t sure could be done, they turned the hyperobject of AI into a shared object. They held space for almost every perspective without losing their clear point of view. And they made it entertaining enough that your neighbor or your parents can watch it and walk out understanding what's at stake.

At CHT, we say clarity creates agency. This film helps create that clarity.

So listen to our conversation with the team behind the film, then go see it for yourself.

Watch - https://t.co/8VCWh3T8AB

Read - https://t.co/4da1f8rWWg

Listen - https://t.co/rUyPWd7aWX

[World Governments Summit @WorldGovSummit]

A powerful reminder at the World Governments Summit, that the next frontier is not just scientific discovery, it is redefining humanity’s relationship with nature, learning its languages, and playing the long game on a finite planet.

Hear it from Aza Raskin, Co-founder and President, Earth Species Project.

Join the conversation.
🗓️ 3–5 February 2026
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

[Aza Raskin @aza]

I'm incredibly proud to have catalyzed and worked alongside the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny on THE AI DOC.

There is no other moment than this to catalyze a global movement of awareness to steer the race and incentives bending the development of AI towards catastrophic ends.

The game theory of the race only changes when the fear of all of us losing becomes greater than the fear of “me losing to you”.

What The Day After was to global nuclear war, THE AI DOC has a chance of being to AI.

See The AI Doc in theaters March 27th.

https://t.co/PpavfIkyrL

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Counting down to Sundance ✨

I’m heading to Park City for the Sundance premiere of The AI Doc. and couldn’t be more excited. Films like this create rare space for honest conversations -and I’m really looking forward to the people, questions, and unexpected connections that tend to happen there.

I’ll be around throughout the festival and always happy to connect-at gatherings or over a coffee between screenings. If you’re organizing something or want to connect while we’re in town, don’t hesitate to reach out.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

We're at a pivotal moment in our relationship with the rest of nature and with AI. I'm excited to bring this conversation to Austin next year!

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

Will AI help us break the interspecies understanding barrier in time to change our relationship with the rest of nature?

@aza will keynote #SXSW2026 to talk about what happens when can listen to and learn from the languages of other species.

The clock is ticking. 🌍

[Aza Raskin @aza]

A must watch

[Center For Humane Technology @HumaneTech_]

CHT co-founder @tristanharris joined @StevenBartlett on Diary of a CEO for a wide-ranging conversation on the broken incentives shaping the AI race, the narrow path to a better future, and why this is THE moment for civic engagement on AI—before our path is decided for us.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Join us!

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

Meet our speakers for the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @NeurIPSConf!

🐬 @LaelaSayigh – decoding dolphin communication
🦇 @oisinmacaodha – AI for biodiversity monitoring
🐦 Julie Elie – neural mechanisms of songbird & bat vocal learning

[Aza Raskin @aza]

In this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, @tristanharris and I imagine what the world might look like if we had sprung into action and fixed the harms of social media when we first saw them. Check it out.

[Center For Humane Technology @HumaneTech_]

In our annual Ask Us Anything episode, there was one question that kept coming up: The broken incentives behind social media, and now AI, have done so much damage to our society, but what is the alternative?

In this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, @tristanharris and @aza set out to answer this question by imagining what a world with humane technology might look like—one where we recognized the harms of social media early and embarked on a whole of society effort to fix them.

This alternative history serves to show that there are narrow pathways to a better future, if we have the imagination and the courage to make them a reality.

Link to the full episode in the replies.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Each year I look forward to our Ask Us Anything episode. Getting to hear from you directly is such a treat. This week @tristanharris and I explore your great questions. Check it out:

Watch - https://t.co/gK2uW4OMJz
Listen - https://t.co/MqrSW0il2x

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

💡How can we build #AI models that generalize across species + tasks? 🐦🐋🐒

This is a fundamental question for our work at ESP and it’s the topic of our most recent paper and blog post: https://t.co/T42v579i6u

🧵Read below for more👇 #MachineLearning #Bioacoustics