14 Facts About Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris is an American technology ethicist.

Tristan Harris is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.

At Stanford, Tristan Harris was classmates with one of Instagram's founders, Kevin Systrom, and helped create a demo app with the other founder, Mike Krieger.

Google acquired Apture in 2011, and Tristan Harris ended up working on Google Inbox.

Tristan Harris holds several patents from his previous work at Apple, Wikia, Apture, and Google.

Tristan Harris left Google in December 2015 to co-found the 5013 nonprofit organization Time Well Spent, later called the Center for Humane Technology.

Tristan Harris asserted that human minds can be hijacked and the choices they make are not as free as they think they are.

At CHT, Tristan Harris has advocated for understanding and minimizing the negative impacts of digital technologies.

Tristan Harris is the co-host of the podcast, Your Undivided Attention.

At the TEDTalk 2017 conference, Tristan Harris exposed how a handful of tech companies are able to manipulate billions of people to generate billions of dollars in ad revenue.

Tristan Harris implored his peers to be more conscious and ethical in shaping the human spirit and human potential through technology.

Tristan Harris has testified before the United States Congress on multiple occasions.

In 2019, Tristan Harris gave testimony at the United States Senate's hearing on Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms.

In 2021, Tristan Harris provided testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law on data privacy and how algorithms are able to influence people's choices and effectively change their minds.