#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future
From Making Sense with Sam Harris by Sam Harris
April 10, 2026 · 1h 49m
About this episode
Sam Harris discusses the dangers of AI and its implications with Tristan Harris.
Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the dangers of AI and the race to build it. They discuss the new documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist , the lessons of The Social Dilemma , the arms race dynamics between AI labs, the "intelligence curse" and its implications for human political power, the psychology of tech CEOs indifferent to extinction risk, the possibilities of US-China coordination on AI safety, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe .
People in this episode
Host: Sam Harris
Guest: Tristan Harris
Topics covered
- AI dangers
- documentary discussion
- tech ethics
- US-China coordination
- political power
- extinction risk
Keywords
- AI
- extinction risk
- tech CEOs
- political power
- arms race
- documentary
- social media
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, The Social Dilemma
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