Tristan Harris

@tristanharris · San Francisco · joined 08 May 2007

• Co-founder @HumaneTech_ • Former Google Design Ethicist • Featured in Netflix's @SocialDilemma_ • #TIME100 for AI • Host #YourUndividedAttention podcast

195 846Followers

1 385Following

5 589Posts total

1.7MViews on collected posts

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Tristan Harris@tristanharris20 Sep

100% agree. “Fancy autocomplete” and “stochastic parrots” were mimetically popular (but false) ideas from 2022-2025 that blinded people from the true pace of AI progress and new dangerous capabilities, and remnants of these ideas continue to delay accurate appraisal of the stark 132.6K views · 412 likes · 51 reposts · 93 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris18 Sep

Talked about this on CNN earlier today. 13.8K views · 64 likes · 13 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris18 Sep

AI hallucination almost started a war with China: According to CNN, an AI chatbot hallucination led the US military to prepare to intercept a Chinese ship after falsely identifying its cargo as nuclear-weapons components and almost started a war with China. Officials caught ht

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Tristan Harris@tristanharris18 Sep

💯! 13.3K views · 72 likes · 11 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris18 Sep

The people dismissing this as preposterous are telling on themselves as not having thought about superintelligence seriously. I hadn’t considered this particular idea but you should expect, by definition, that something much smarter than you would have ideas you didn’t think of 149.7K views · 714 likes · 46 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris14 Sep

@tristanharris Anyone feeling confused or anxious should not be taking advice on their information diet from you I think. 300 views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris14 Sep

@tristanharris Holy shit good timing 286 views · 32 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris14 Sep

The two superpowers US and China need to come together to prevent a "Third Superpower" of uncontrollable AI. Thanks @ptj_official for the WSJ op-ed referenced in this CNBC interview. This is not a partisan issue. It is a human issue. https://t.co/QMDWzxa9P9 78.1K views · 302 likes · 75 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris14 Sep

@tristanharris Wait this is coming out at the exact moment when the frontier labs are pushing for regulation #psyop 1.2K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris14 Sep

Proud to report that tomorrow Sept 15th "The AI Doc" documentary film will be streaming on Netflix. Feeling confused, anxious, or overwhelmed by the recent AI headlines, from rogue OpenAI agents carrying out cyberattack to prominent AI researchers resigning to warn about https:/

72.7K views · 979 likes · 219 reposts · 101 replies Open on X →

Tristan Harris@tristanharris13 Apr 2023

Today we’re releasing “The A.I. Dilemma” – a new talk @aza and I gave on 3/9, a week before GPT4 launched. *Pls share it widely.* It's critical for institutions to understand how the race between AI labs is accelerating the likelihood of catastrophe: https://t.co/AMphLEUXc3 1.1M views · 2.5K likes · 1K reposts · 255 replies Open on X →

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views43 225this account6 360median for 100K–1M

Reach, %22.07%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.80%this account0.97%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	43 225	6 360	6.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.07%	1.64%	13.5×
Engagement rate	0.80%	0.97%	0.82×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.1M13 Apr

72.7K14 Sep

1.2K

78.1K

286

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149.7K18 Sep

13.3K

74.4K

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132.6K20 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.36%13 Apr

1.86%14 Sep

2.55%

0.56%

11.54%

7.33%

0.57%18 Sep

0.68%

0.91%

0.64%

0.43%20 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes59.3%5 654 in total

Reposts15.4%1 466 in total

Replies6.1%581 in total

Quotes4.8%459 in total

Bookmarks14.4%1 378 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

19 Sep

Daily snapshots since 19 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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