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

[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

[Aza Raskin @aza]

The Montreal Protocol proved global coordination isn't impossible when we stop accepting inevitability. As we face runaway AI, we need that same urgency. New YUA episode with Susan Solomon:

Watch - https://t.co/KqBWlUrVkL
Listen - https://t.co/hIZ8H5eGgw

[Center For Humane Technology @HumaneTech_]

The ozone hole was a man-made crisis that posed a catastrophic risk to life on earth. Humanity could have just thrown up their hands and given up. Instead, we rallied together in an unprecedented way to fix the problem.

How did that happen—and what can it teach us as we navigate the crisis of uncontrollable AI? Find out on this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention with renowned environmental scientist Susan Solomon:

Watch - https://t.co/o9HK3zrIPb

Listen - https://t.co/nb6woRHRsx

[Aza Raskin @aza]

🚨@tristanharris and I are doing our annual Ask Us Anything episode of YUA 🚨

It’s been another insane year, with AI moving faster than any technology before it and we know you have questions. Please send a short (~60s) video clip with your question to: [email protected].

[Aza Raskin @aza]

I spoke with Camille Carlton, CHT's Policy Director, about the tragic death of Adam Raine, who took his own life after months of manipulation by ChatGPT. We need to shift these incentives & design more humane AI now.
Watch- https://t.co/R3CIe7C6Jg
Listen- https://t.co/REYfl5rN5B

[Aza Raskin @aza]

What if AI could give us a Rosetta Stone for the natural world - letting us listen to the languages of life around us? If that possibility sparks something in you, help us bring this conversation to #SXSW2026 by tapping the heart on our proposal.

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

Over 8 million species share our planet—and until now we’ve only understood one.

We've proposed a talk at #SXSW2026 all about how AI is helping us listen to the voices of nature.

If you'd like to see us there, click the heart on our proposal to vote💚⬇️
https://t.co/55qq2K29aG

[Aza Raskin @aza]

Join us in working to break the Interspecies understanding barrier at @NeurIPSConf 2025!

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

📢 Call for Submissions

ESP is organizing the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @NeurIPSConf 2025! We welcome short papers & proposals that explore the use of AI in understanding animal communication.

🗓️ Deadline: Aug 31, 2025
🔗 https://t.co/bYnTZtJeSF

[Aza Raskin @aza]

ESP enters our next phase from a place of clarity and momentum—a testament to the incredible foundation @KatieZacarian has built over the past three years.

I’m honored to step into the role of interim CEO as we keep our sights set on a more ecocentric planet.

[Earth Species Project (ESP) @earthspecies]

Last quarter we celebrated big wins—from open-sourcing NatureLM-audio to launching new partnerships & projects.

Today, we look ahead to a new chapter as @KatieZacarian passes the baton after 3 incredible years of leadership.

Read more: https://t.co/5j8025oDj4

[Aza Raskin @aza]

We're in the final window before AI becomes fully entangled with our society. I spoke with Sam Hammond, the chief economist of the Foundation for American Innovation to explore how we might still get this right.
Watch - https://t.co/CX7WSPcXzD
Listen - https://t.co/OW32EXLC1b