# How We Could Lose Control: Avoiding the Paths to Runaway AI

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**Date:** March 13, 2026 · 10:30 PM  
**Location:** JW Marriott / Salon AB  
**Format:** Fireside Chat  
**Track:** Tech & AI track  
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## Speakers

- **Tristan Harris** — Co-founder
- **Anthony Aguirre** — Executive Director

When experts talk about AI risks, they often talk about the loss of human control – but what does that actually mean? And how could it happen? In this fireside chat, physicist Anthony Aguirre and tech ethicist Tristan Harris go beyond surface-level alarm to map out the real mechanisms that could lead humanity to be sidelined by its own creation. From opaque incentives and design choices to systemic misalignment and power concentration, they’ll unpack how humans could lose control over AI and what can still be done to prevent it.

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