Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2025-11-27
Books mentioned on AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
Ex-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS reveals how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail humans, hack democracy, and threaten jobs…by 2027 Tristan Harris is a former Google design ethicist and leading voice from Netflix’s The Social Dilemma.
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping exploration of how Homo sapiens evolved, dominated the planet, and created complex societies through shared myths and beliefs.
Discussed“So suddenly this political class, this political power base, they become the useless class to borrow a term from Yuval Harrari, the author of Sapiens.”
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The Humane Interface
Discussed“So before Steve Jobs took it over um he started the Macintosh project and he wrote a book called the humane interface about how technology could be humane and could be sensitive to human needs and human vulnerabilities.”
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The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt investigates the profound psychological and developmental toll that modern smartphones, social media, and a decline in unsupervised play have inflicted on today's youth.
Discussed“And we're seeing the success of people like Jonathan height and his book, The Anxious Generation. We're seeing schools go phone free.”
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