Alvin W. Graylin

I've worked there half my career, and I think essentially the AI industry today is using the same tools that the military-industrial complex has used over the last century in terms of, you have to create an enemy.

Once you do that, then you get funding, you get support, you get deregulation, you get to move faster, and then you get to make money.

And what the AI labs are actually trying to do is not to save the world.

It is actually to create billions, actually trillions of dollars.

In fact, they've specifically said AI is worth trillions of dollars, and they want to be the first one to create AGI, artificial general intelligence.

And it's defined actually by Sam as a technology that can replace the average worker.

And what that means is he wants to create a technology that can take everybody's jobs here.

Now, on the surface, that actually may be scary, but I think if it's coming from the right place, it actually could be an amazing thing, because that means we get liberated so that we can spend time doing art and music and coming to TED.

But unfortunately, I think right now, there isn't the other side of the story being put in, which is, how do we protect the people who are going to be displaced by it?

Yeah, so I actually just turned the paper to Stanford, which is an AI policy paper about what we need to do going forward and how we move from today's trajectory into something better.

And it's a three-piece, three-part story, which sounds simple, but it's actually very hard to execute.

One is we actually have to decide that instead of competing over resources and creating hundreds of labs around the world, trying to duplicate, actually, the same work,

and having an undersupply of chips and memory and talent, rather than doing that, we need to come together and create what some people call the CERN of AI, essentially a single lab that aggregates all of the talent around the world.

Like the space station.

Like the CERN, like the ITER labs that we've done for other types of technologies.

It is very doable.

And then whatever comes out of it, rather than hoarding it for one company or one country, to do it and share it with the world.

which is the whole idea of open science.

This is what's made progress in this world happen.

Yeah, TED crowd.