Into The Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Today, in a special Halloween edition of Into The Machine, I’m releasing a conversation with Tristan Harris.Tristan is the founder of the Center for Humane Technology and one of the leading voices warning about how runaway AI might destabilize society. He starred in (and co-produced) the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.I’ve known Tristan for a long time, and this is one of the best conversations we’ve ever had—public or private. I press him on major risk scenarios, what we can expect AI labs

Something is wrong with society—we feel it before we name it. Is it the algorithms? The platforms? The culture we create in response to them?In this episode of Into the Machine, I sit down with Tim Urban—beloved internet thinker, TED phenomenon, and author of What’s Our Problem?—to triangulate the crisis we’re living through: a moment where technology has outpaced our culture, and tribalism is turned into profit.We trace a long arc—from the chaos of Gutenberg’s printing press to the attention

Today I’m launching Into The Machine.My first episode is a conversation with my colleague, social psychologist and #1 NYT bestselling author Jonathan Haidt.Jon and I wrote a piece in The Atlantic called The Dark Psychology of Social Networks — hoping to add clarity to the debate around social media. AI has changed the conversation. We now find ourselves in a stranger moment with LLMs, asking deeper questions about what these tools are doing to our ability to think.In this episode we discuss: *

We are living in a strange moment.AI is everything, everywhere, all at once. Democracy is very much on the ropes. We are all confused about what comes next.Upstream of our troubles are a handful of algorithms that are legible to us for now. Yet newer systems rapidly being deployed are far more powerful, and far more influential than social media ever was.Over the coming months I’ll be releasing conversations with some of the smartest people I know unpacking these issues, and sharing my essays in