Tristan Harris warned millions that the AI race is heading toward catastrophe. His November 2025 conversation with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO delivered a structural diagnosis that holds up under scrutiny, but his prescription stops at public awareness without providing the operational governance infrastructure the diagnosis itself demands.

This episode walks through what happens when a warning is largely correct but the proposed remedy does not go far enough.

The conversation covers five movements:

What Harris gets right. The AI race replicates social media's flawed incentive architecture where private profit creates public harm. AI platforms are engineering attachment and intimacy rather than just capturing attention. No one in any government holds structural accountability for what AI does at scale. And Anthropic's  ...