ORGANIZATION
Center for Humane Technology
The nonprofit co-founded by Aza Raskin and Tristan Harris in 2018 to redirect technology toward human flourishing rather than engagement extraction.
The Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit advocacy and research organization founded in 2018 by Aza Raskin and Tristan Harris — both former technology insiders who had concluded that the industry's incentive structure systematically produced tools harmful to the users they were designed to serve. The organization's premise is deceptively simple: the technology industry's business model rewards engagement at the expense of well-being, and the solution lies not in educating users to resist but in redesigning the tools and the incentive structures that produce them. The organization's analytical vocabulary — the race to the bottom of the brain stem, downgrading, extraction-oriented design — has shaped the global conversation about attention, addiction, and now artificial intelligence.
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The Center emerged from the recognition that individual critique was insufficient against a systemic problem. Harris, a former Google design ethicist, had been articulating the engagement-optimization critique since 2013. Raskin had been developing parallel insights from his work on infinite scroll and subsequent design