Aza Raskin

And what I learned was that the best of intentions are still eaten by the worst of incentives.

Intentions are eaten by incentives.

And I was forced to watch as social media picked up my tool to hurt people instead of help people and now waste something on the order of 100,000 human lifetimes every week.

You know that a system is humane when it is protecting the thing that it depends on.

Has social media made democracy stronger or weaker?

Well, obviously weaker.

So there are systems that are eating what we all depend on.

And you can see similar things when every nation is racing to capture as much fish out of the oceans as possible, and you deplete the oceans, that's also depleting something that we all depend on.

We now sort of think of this in Silicon Valley as the now sort of trite move fast and break things mentality.

And there are so many examples we could share to show how predominant this mentality still is.

I sort of want to zoom back to young Mark Zuckerberg while he's still at college.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so there's this image that we often use of a Jenga tower, where you're pulling blocks up from the bottom of the tower of things we all depend on to get some new cool feature at the top.

So in AI, you get this new feature at the top, which is make amazing new AI videos and images

But now you pull out the block of knowing what's true.

You get amazing new cancer drugs at the top, but you pull out the block of biological safety.

Now everyone can make bioweapons.

And so it's this form of like you pull out the block to build up that lets you see you get a more and more unstable society.

And at some point you pull a block out and the whole thing falls.