Bret Weinstein

There would be every reason to have exactly the same perspective, right? I remember the beginning of Facebook and I remember the idea that suddenly the process that used to afflict people where you would just lose touch with most of the people who had been important to you, that was not something that needed to happen anymore.

There would be every reason to have exactly the same perspective, right? I remember the beginning of Facebook and I remember the idea that suddenly the process that used to afflict people where you would just lose touch with most of the people who had been important to you, that was not something that needed to happen anymore.

You could just retain them permanently as a part of a diffuse social grouping that just simply grew and value was added. There's no end to how much good that did. But... What it did to us was profound and not evident in the first chapter.

You could just retain them permanently as a part of a diffuse social grouping that just simply grew and value was added. There's no end to how much good that did. But... What it did to us was profound and not evident in the first chapter.

Say the same thing about the cell phones and the dopamine traps and the way this has disconnected us from each other, the way it has disconnected us from nature, the way it has altered the very patterns with which we think it has altered nature. every classroom. And those things, I think, are going to turn out to have been sort of minor foreshadowings of the disruption that AI will produce.

Say the same thing about the cell phones and the dopamine traps and the way this has disconnected us from each other, the way it has disconnected us from nature, the way it has altered the very patterns with which we think it has altered nature. every classroom. And those things, I think, are going to turn out to have been sort of minor foreshadowings of the disruption that AI will produce.

So I agree with you. Today, the amount you can do with AI is a tremendous amount of good. There's a little bit of harm. Maybe that's something we need to worry about. But As this develops, as we get to, you know, to peer over the edge of this cliff that we're headed to, I think we're going to discover that we can't yet detect the nature of the alteration that's coming.

So I agree with you. Today, the amount you can do with AI is a tremendous amount of good. There's a little bit of harm. Maybe that's something we need to worry about. But As this develops, as we get to, you know, to peer over the edge of this cliff that we're headed to, I think we're going to discover that we can't yet detect the nature of the alteration that's coming.

I don't know why you say more likely. I mean, I think the structure of your argument is sound. You would prepare for the world that might happen for which you can prepare. There's literally no point in trying to prepare for a world you can't predict at all. The only thing you can do is just sort of upgrade your own skills and…

I don't know why you say more likely. I mean, I think the structure of your argument is sound. You would prepare for the world that might happen for which you can prepare. There's literally no point in trying to prepare for a world you can't predict at all. The only thing you can do is just sort of upgrade your own skills and…

But if I have one message for the technologists, it's that your confidence about what this can and cannot do is misplaced because you have, without noticing, stepped into the realm of the truly complex. Mm-hmm. your confidence should drop to near zero that you know what's going on. Are these things conscious? I don't know. But will they be?

But if I have one message for the technologists, it's that your confidence about what this can and cannot do is misplaced because you have, without noticing, stepped into the realm of the truly complex. Mm-hmm. your confidence should drop to near zero that you know what's going on. Are these things conscious? I don't know. But will they be?

Highly likely they will become conscious and that we will not have a test to tell us whether that has happened.

Highly likely they will become conscious and that we will not have a test to tell us whether that has happened.

Intelligence. That's exactly the thing, is that what makes human beings special is our cognitive capacity and very specifically our ability to plug our minds into each other so that the sum is – or the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's what makes human cognition special. And what we are doing is we are creating a –

Intelligence. That's exactly the thing, is that what makes human beings special is our cognitive capacity and very specifically our ability to plug our minds into each other so that the sum is – or the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That's what makes human cognition special. And what we are doing is we are creating a –

Something that can technologically surpass it without any of the preconditions that make that a safe process. So yes, we've revolutionized the world how many different times? It's innumerable. But we've made farming vastly more efficient. That's different than taking our core competency as a species and surpassing ourselves with the product of our labor. I think your question is a good one.

Something that can technologically surpass it without any of the preconditions that make that a safe process. So yes, we've revolutionized the world how many different times? It's innumerable. But we've made farming vastly more efficient. That's different than taking our core competency as a species and surpassing ourselves with the product of our labor. I think your question is a good one.

Then what does become of it?

Then what does become of it?