Alvin W. Graylin

I mean, this is one of the biggest questions that we have as a society today.

And unfortunately, there's just a lot of misinformation.

And my answer to you is probably going to be a little different than the Silicon Valley consensus, even though I work at Stanford.

And it's going to be probably a little scary to a lot of you.

But hopefully, by the end of this, it will convince you to take action, just like what Ted's ... And the little note I saw in Ted, it says, what action are you going to take after this event?

We are really at this inflection point, and the inflection point, not the traditional one that just keeps going up.

We are essentially at a fork in a row between three possible futures right now.

One where the big labs essentially takes control of

of the government by growing their power and their resources as much as possible, then creating essentially a class of trillionaires and everybody else.

This is kind of the Elysium future that's ahead of us.

The second option is that actually we are heading towards a Mad Max future, where we intensify the conflict between countries and going from AI race to AI war to kinetic war and potentially to nuclear war.

And I've talked to people in D.C.

who actually see that as inevitable, which is a little scary.

And the third option that we have right now is potentially the Star Trek option, the option where technology is being used and shared, and something brings us, you know, in the Star Trek stories, essentially the Vulcans bring us advanced technology, peaceful, rational species brings us technology and saves us from ourselves, and brings on this ...

century of discovery or millennia of discovery.

We have a potential to get there.

Unfortunately, today, we are heading towards the first two.

And the forces of what's driving it is actually going to take a lot of work for us to move from the first forces towards the first two towards that last one.

That's actually one of the biggest myths out there and actually one of the most scary things out there.

In fact, two days ago, I just came back from China.