Share of analysed episodes per month, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026: 1 of 3,462, 5 of 3,335, 1 of 3,563, 0 of 3,837, 0 of 3,963, 4 of 4,413, 1 of 4,084, 2 of 3,909, 1 of 3,947, 0 of 4,125, 0 of 4,085, 0 of 4,225.
Companies must face strict regulations and legal liability to prevent the exploitation, manipulation, and harm of human users.
4 people · 4 episodes
Tristan Harris believes that software developers must be subject to liability laws and regulation to prevent the exploitation of human psychology.
“What is the lesson we learned from social media that if the companies aren't responsible for the harms that show up on their platform because we had this section 230 free pass that created this blank check to just go print money on all the harms that are currently getting generated?”
The Prof G Pod · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 136K views on this topicPrivacy should be redefined as the right to be free from manipulative algorithms that predict and attempt to influence human behavior.
“what it really has to become is a prohibition a prohibition on prediction of human behavior.”
StarTalk · May 2026 · 1 episode · 914K views on this topicThe development of AI-driven companion apps should be regulated to prevent mass psychological dependency and social dysfunction.
“China introduced regulation. They introduced a bill to treat companion apps at that level with that level of scrutiny. So when somebody is getting too delusional with an AI, it has to insert itself or send help and that sort of thing.”
Earn Your Leisure · Mar 2026 · 2 episodes · 206K views on this topicCompanies must be transparent about the limitations and nature of their AI tools to prevent user manipulation.
“it is an it can be a helpful assistant but there it's it's a tricky balance so we can't like on the side of like if we don't if we're not careful enough if the companies are that are putting this out are not careful enough it could look a little bit like it's trying to manipulate us”
TED · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 43K views on this topicCompanies should maintain user access to purchased goods and data through ownership rights, data portability, and community support.
3 people · 3 episodes
It is ethically problematic for companies to restrict ownership rights by reserving the power to remotely disable consumer hardware.
“You 1,000% do not own the Nintendo console you buy anymore, which would be fine. It would be more fine if we were still in the era of like carts that actually had all the game data on them and that actually worked completely without Nintendo's online services”
Linus Tech Tips · May 2025 · 9 episodes · 6.4M views on this topicLuke contends that if a company shuts down servers for an online-only game, they have a responsibility to release the source code so the community can maintain the game.
“or you should have to as we've said so many times you should have to release the side code yeah at the very least and if nobody picks it up all right so be it so be it but if you advertise the feature then I think there needs to be legislation in place”
Linus Tech Tips · Dec 2022 · 9 episodes · 6.4M views on this topicTech platforms should not be allowed to keep user data within closed silos and should be required to allow data portability.
“one of the things that I think people have thought about doing in is legislating that you must be able to move your data between different ones.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 80K views on this topicTechnological advancement should not compromise the preservation of historic sites and natural environments on celestial bodies.
2 people · 1 episode
Hannah advocates for the preservation of historic sites on the moon and other celestial bodies for future generations.
“I guess I just really love the the historicalness of it. Um in fact, there are only four archaeological sites that do not lie within the boundaries of a nation.”
The Rest Is Science · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 494K views on this topicMichael believes there should be established interplanetary parks on places like the moon to preserve them as they were before human activity.
“What about building a park on Mars that preserves its surface and atmosphere as it was before we changed it? Like I want the preservation of these places. The moon can become this big metropolis, but there should be large interstellar or inner inner planetary parks.”
The Rest Is Science · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 494K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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