At this film night, we’ll watch two pieces that provide a framework for understanding the serious challenges that AI presents. First, a TED talk by Tristan Harris entitled The Narrow Path: Why AI is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Innovation. The second will be from the podcast Your Undivided Attention hosted by Tristan and Aza Rascin with guest Dr. Sonya Amadae entitled What Would it Take to Actually Trust Each Other? The Game Theory Dilemma.

In the TED Talk, Tristan, who was featured in the documentary The Social Dilemma and co-founded The Center for Humane Technology, calls on us to learn from the mistakes of social media’s catastrophic rollout and confront the predictable dangers of reckless AI development, offering a “narrow path” where power is matched with responsibility, foresight and wisdom. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 9, 2025)

In the podcast episode from January 8, 2026, Tristan and Aza explore the game theory dilemma — the idea that if I adopt game theory logic and you don’t, you lose — with Dr. Sonja Amadae, professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki. She's also the director at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and the author of “Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and the Neoliberal Economy.”