Al Gore

I think that Donald Trump is constantly elevating public fear in part because he instinctively knows that it interrupts the operations of collective reasoning, which really is his principal enemy.

He says the news media, that they're the enemies of the people.

What he really means is independent sources of knowledge

that use the power of truth to help shine the light on a pathway forward, all of that's an enemy to him because he has his own design for the future.

He doesn't want any interference from that.

And I think that AI could be, already is a tool that he uses quite significantly.

I don't really know, Tim, whether or not our technology

human resistance to being fooled is going to be triggered.

I see some signs that it already is.

I see movies and music performances and cultural events where keen-eyed observers in the audience say, wait a minute, that's AI.

And the producers are confronted with a stampede away from the box office.

And they say, OK, we'll take it out.

Now, as it continues to improve, of course, that will once again change the relocate the goalposts, I fear.

But I do think that there is quite a lot of resistance to this new technology encroaching on the essence of what it is.

to be human.

Now, you asked about the climate impacts of the data centers.

They're very, very harmful.

It shouldn't be an occasion for doomerism, but it's a serious problem.

It's a serious addition to emissions that have already been increasing.

Now, there are those to give