What if we had fixed social media?

We really enjoyed hearing all of your questions for our annual Ask Us Anything episode. There was one question that kept coming up: what might a different world look like? The broken incentives behind social media, and now AI, have done so much damage to our society, but what is the alternative? How can we blaze a different path?
In this episode, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin set out to answer those questions 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.
Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology (humanetech.com). Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_ (twitter.com/humanetech_). You can find a full transcript, key takeaways, and much more on our Substack (centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com).
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