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Aza Raskin            

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at the Center for Humane Technology; Co-Host of "Your Undivided Attention" Podcast & Founder of Massive Health

Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, Aza Raskin is the cofounder for The Earth Species Project (ESP) and the Center for Humane Technology. Through ESP's work, technology uses machine learning to decode animal languages, and if successful, would profoundly alter the human experience and the future of the ecological world forever. The Center for Humane Technology's mission is to reimagine the digital world and reduce the way technology is breaking open societies.

Raskin has taken three companies from founding to acquisition and is the co-host for the popular podcast "Your Undivided Attention" and chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence (AI Counsel)., He helped found Mozilla Labs and build the web at early Mozilla, as his company Humanized was Mozilla's first acquisition. Raskin was essential to the creation of the double Emmy award-winning global phenomenon "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix. He was named FastCompany’s Master of Design, and listed on Forbes 30 Under 30. He is the son of human-computer interface designer Jef Raskin, who helped invent the first Macintosh at Apple.

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Our Social Dilemma

In an age of increasing technological cognitive dominance, how can we protect humans, our societies, and our ability to self govern, and rise to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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