Tristan Harris: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
崔斯頓.哈瑞斯: 科技公司為了吸引你的注意所使用的手段
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over a desk with little dials,
各種小儀表盤的辦公桌前,
in one of those control rooms.
我也曾經是控制室裡的一員。
steer people's thoughts?
控制人們的思想。
is how the handful of people
of technology companies
what a billion people are thinking today.
去控制十幾億人的想法。
or what's on the feed,
或者要給你什麼資訊。
of time in our minds.
安排好很多小時段。
it schedules you to have thoughts
這會促使你產生一個
a little bit of time
to get sucked into.
花時間在那上面。
as this blue sky opportunity.
湛藍天空的機會。
in a very specific direction.
為什麼科技正在往特定的方向發展。
driving the direction
for our attention.
競相爭奪我們的注意力。
是如何運作的。
of persuasive techniques
called the Persuasive Technology Lab
「說服力技術實驗室」學來的,
how much time you spend.
你花費在他們網站的時間。
more of people's time.
使用者更多的時間。
you look at that and say,
你看到了這樣的狀況,你會說,
all of my market share,
都被你們瓜分掉了,
all the videos in the newsfeed
like it's sucking us in the way it is
to the bottom of the brain stem
使用者腦袋的比賽。
Snapchat is the number one way
Snapchat 目前是
最熱門的社交軟體。
the United States communicate.
text messages to communicate,
有在用簡訊在與人交流,
設計給年輕人使用的,
a hundred million of them that use it.
a feature called Snapstreaks,
Snapstreaks 的特色功能,
連續不間斷地聊了幾天。
communicated with each other.
something they don't want to lose.
and you have 150 days in a row,
而有著連續 150 天的聊天紀錄,
that that schedules in kids' minds.
腦袋裡被設定好的時間模式。
when kids go on vacation,
當孩子在度假時,
to up to five other friends
Snapstreaks 的聊天記錄,
這樣的東西要維護,
taking photos of just pictures or walls
不然當天他們會渾身不舒服。
they're having real conversations.
他們在真正的交流。
gossip on the telephone.
is that in the 1970s,
gossiping on the telephone,
on the other side of the screen
how your psychology worked
into a double bind with each other.
feel a little bit of outrage,
just comes over you.
of getting your attention,
注意的方式之一,
doesn't just schedule a reaction
情感上讓你有個宣洩的出口,
with other people.
分享我們的憤怒。
that they said?"
at getting attention,
between showing you the outrage feed
令人平靜的消息之間進行選擇,
to show you the outrage feed,
consciously chose that,
at getting your attention.
更注意到他們。
is not accountable to us.
to maximizing attention.
of advertising,
to actually walk into the control room
付廣告費的人負責,
into their minds."
who are most susceptible.
it's only going to get worse.
所以狀況只會越來越糟。
problem than this,
比這問題還要緊急,
is underneath all other problems.
都與這個問題有關。
and live the lives that we want,
影響我們的生活方式。
that we have our conversations,
to have the conversations
想要與他人交流、
have one of these in their pocket.
都有一台這個東西。
that we are persuadable.
我們是會被說服的。
into having little thoughts
注入一些思想
that you didn't choose,
that that happens?
fundamentally in a new way.
of human history,
self-aware Enlightenment,
we want to protect.
and accountability systems
模式和責任系統,
and more and more persuasive over time --
我們越來越容易被說服時──
to get more persuasive --
to what we want.
並把它透明化。
persuasion that exists
of the persuadee.
like the business model of advertising.
像是廣告的商業模式。
科技文藝復興,
this view of human nature,
有一定的了解,
of a billion people --
who have some desire
and what they want to be thinking
and how they want to be informed,
into these other directions.
into all these different directions.
一個完整的文藝復興設計,
the exact and most empowering
正確的、有自主性的、
for those timelines to happen.
against the timelines
wouldn't want to be happening,
not having the ding that sends us away;
我們就不會被牽著鼻子走;
to live out the timeline that we want.
自己想要的時光。
cancels dinner on you,
與你的晚餐約會,
want to schedule exactly one thing,
想要準確地規劃一件事,
you spend on the screen.
created a different timeline
是否這些設計師可以創造出一個
using all of their data,
利用他們所有的數據,
with the people that you care about?
all loneliness in society,
wanted to make possible for people.
想要為我們實現的嗎?
something supercontroversial on Facebook,
發表備受爭議的言論,
thing to be able to do,
that big comment box,
what key do you want to type?
你想要輸入什麽東西?
a little timeline of things
to do on the screen.
another button there saying,
time well spent for you?
underneath the item it said,
about something controversial,
可以被繼續討論,
empowering place on your timeline,
最顯眼的位置,
with a bunch of a friends over
a find and replace
想盡快找到並替換掉
that are currently steering us
screen time persuasively
and all of this power
our attention to what we cared about
to have the conversations
to use our attention individually.
and coordinate it together.
that a lot of people
to coordinate their attention
a superhuman ability to do that.
most pressing and important problems
that we could create in the future.
假設性事物。
right underneath our noses,
a billion people's thoughts.
about the new augmented reality
and these cool things that could happen,
to the same race for attention,
in a billion people's pockets.
new cool fancy education apps,
kids' minds are getting manipulated
來挽救那些已經被操控、
back and forth.
runaway artificial intelligences
人工智慧未來,
artificial intelligence
maximizing for one thing.
推送新聞的人工智慧機器。
to colonize new planets,
that we're already on.
for solving every other problem.
or in our collective problems
to put our attention where we care about.
花時間關注、花心思在乎的。
就是曾經在乎的美好時光。
Hey, stay up here a sec.
崔斯頓,謝謝你。請留步。
on pretty short notice,
what you complain about is addiction,
你抱怨的是沉迷,
for them it's actually interesting.
他們認為那是興趣。
that is fantastically interesting.
than it ever has been.
I think it's really interesting.
假設,你在用 Youtube 看影片,
is if you're just YouTube, for example,
the more interesting next video.
at suggesting that next video,
所有人都想要看的完美影片,
the perfect next video
at keeping you hooked on the screen.
我們的邊界。對吧?
our boundaries would be.
你甚麼時候會「睡著」嗎?
something about, say, falling asleep.
YouTube 和「睡著了」,對吧?
are Facebook, YouTube and sleep."
is that the human architecture is limited
人體是有極限的、
or dimensions of our lives
we've got a naïve model of human nature?
我們把人性想的太天真了?
in terms of human preference,
人類偏好的合理性,
that do an amazing job
幫我們完成,
of things that we really care about
of what we just instinctively click on.
view of human nature in every design,
植入了對人性本質的微妙了解,
我的意思是,我認為現在
is basically only asking our lizard brain
to just impulsively get you to do
time well spent for you?
才是對你有幫助的?
完美的時間安排是怎樣的,
that might include something later,
聽一下 TED 演講之類的?
here at TED in your last day here?
谷歌在一開始就問我們,
and everyone said to us first up,
還是優化本能反應的腦?
to optimize for your reflective brain
that's an interesting word to me
對我來說這個詞很有趣,
two different types of persuadability.
有兩種不同的說服能力。
that we're trying right now
and making an argument,
talking about a different kind,
的說服能力,
even knowing that you're thinking.
I care about this problem so much is
the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford
exactly these techniques.
使用這些偷偷摸摸的方式
that teach people all these covert ways
and orchestrating people's lives.
指揮人們的生活。
don't know that that exists
有這項技術的存在,
so many people from all these companies.
許多來自這些公司的人。
but my experience of them
但就我的經驗而言,
no shortage of good intent.
is that these are evil people.
是在指這些人是壞人。
these unintended consequences
導致了一些意想不到的後果
when you have to get attention,
它就是一場無視規則的精典賽,
is to go lower on the brain stem,
只有更深入腦袋、
to go lower into emotion,
all get a little bit wiser about this.
對這個問題有更進一步的了解。
TH: Thank you very much.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tristan Harris - Design thinkerTristan Harris helps the technology industry more consciously and ethically shape the human spirit and human potential.
Why you should listen
Tristan Harris has been called "the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience" by The Atlantic magazine. Prior to founding the new Center for Humane Technology, he was Google's Design Ethicist, developing a framework for how technology should "ethically" steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens.
Harris has spent a decade understanding the invisible influences that hijack human thinking and action. Drawing on literature from addiction, performative magic, social engineering, persuasive design and behavioral economics, he is currently developing a framework for ethical persuasion, especially as it relates to the moral responsibility of technology companies.
Rolling Stone magazine named Harris one of "25 People Shaping the World" in 2017. His work has been featured on TED, "60 Minutes," HBO's "RealTime with Bill Maher," "PBS NewsHour," Recode, The Atlantic, WIRED, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Economist and many more. Harris has briefed heads of state, technology company CEOs and members of the US Congress about the attention economy.
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