The Center for Humane Technology, founded by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, has built the most-cited civil-society framework for treating attention as a finite human resource that platforms must respect rather than extract. CHT's work — including the Social Dilemma documentary, the AI Dilemma talk, and ongoing policy advocacy — argues that engagement-maximizing design is incompatible with human flourishing.
The attention-rights framework holds that platforms should be designed to serve users' stated goals (the thing they came to do) rather than to extend session length, return frequency, or monetizable engagement. CHT's "Time Well Spent" framing and its more recent AI-focused work supply the conceptual basis for treating attention rights as enforceable.