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Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and former Google Design Ethicist, maps the structural forces driving AI's development trajectory — from recursive self-improvement races to cognitive labor displacement — and argues the default path leads to predictable harms unless governance coordination intervenes.
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The Attachment Economy Trap
AI companions replicate the social media attention race at the deeper level of intimacy and dependency
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The Blackmail Threshold Test
Autonomous self-interest behaviors in controlled tests reveal the true alignment state of frontier AI models
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The Narrow Path Framework
Two dystopias flank every AI governance decision — the goal is the sliver of checks and balances between them
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NAFTA 2.0 — Cognitive Labor Offshoring
AI creates cognitive labor abundance the same way NAFTA created manufacturing abundance: by hollowing out the social fabric
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Incentive Legibility
Read the incentive structure to know the outcome before the evidence arrives
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The AGI Power Pump
AGI is a meta-advantage that compounds across every competitive domain simultaneously