Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin's nonprofit advocacy organization working to realign technology with human interests — responsible for popularizing the 'attention economy' critique of social media design.
The CHT's primary contribution is translating academic technology critique into policy advocacy and public awareness. Harris's 'time well spent' framework: the alternative to engagement-maximizing design. Aza Raskin's infinite scroll invention and subsequent advocacy against it exemplifies the CHT posture: insiders who created problematic features now campaigning for their reform. The Social Dilemma (Netflix, 2020) was largely a CHT production, dramatically amplifying its reach. Forced design and policy conversations at major platforms.
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