Your Undivided Attention
Join us every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by Senior Producer Julia Scott and Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 17, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #30 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 16, 2026
Latest episodes
The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI (opens the original)
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It’s been a whirlwind week in AI news. In this episode, Tristan shares how he’s feeling in this critical moment, breaks down the headlines from an insider's perspective, and points to tangible steps we can take right now to avoid the worst-case scenario.
Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing (opens the original)
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Right now, across all levels of government, from small-town sheriffs to massive federal agencies, police are adopting AI technology at a staggering rate – and they're using it to build out an efficient, centralized surveillance-state apparatus. This week, we speak with two experts about how police are using AI today, what we can expect in the near future, and what protections we need to create now, before it's too late.
We Measure What AI Can Do. We Should Measure What It Does to Us. (opens the original)
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With AI, what gets measured gets optimized. Right now, that's AI capability, not human wellbeing. In this episode, Aza Raskin talks with researchers Imran Khan & Jared Moore about Humane Evals: CHT's push to measure what AI does to us, not just what it can do.
Enough Debate about the AI Jobpocalypse. We Need To Plan for the Messy Middle. (opens the original)
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It feels like we're stuck in an endless debate about what AI will mean for jobs and the economy. Caught in the middle of this debate are actual workers trying to figure out what this means for their livelihoods. Rather than continuing to referee this debate, economist Molly Kinder joins Tristan to follow the incentives and show you where they're actually taking us in the very near future.
Can AI Be Built in Service of Life? A Conversation with Krista Tippett (opens the original)
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This week, we're bringing you a conversation that Tristan had with Krista Tippett, the Peabody Award-winning host of the On Being podcast. In it, they explore critical questions: what does it mean to build AI in service of life? How can we hold a collective problem this big as individuals? And what does it take to resist the spell of inevitability?
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