Dan Farah

You see it communicate.

It waves to you, you know.

Yeah.

You have no issue with this gorilla.

You don't wish it any harm.

But what happens if one day you come in and the other security guards say, hey, last night the gorilla got out of his cage, walked around the park, was playing with the gun cabinet, and then he went back in his cage.

You're like, all right, that's concerning.

Let me keep an eye on this, right?

And then what happens if a month later you come in and they're like, hey, the gorilla, this time he got in the gun cage, he was playing with the gun, and then he went back in his cage with the gun.

What do we do here, right?

Well, it's even worse than that.

So it's like we'll take the gun out of his hand.

We'll put it back.

We'll change the locking and stuff, right?

But then what happens if it evolves to a place where sometime later you come out of your house on a Sunday.

You're not even going to work.

You got your daughter's hand in your hand, and the gorilla is standing on your front lawn with a shotgun.

Then you've got to make a choice really quick, right?

Like do I just take this thing out or do I try to communicate with it and risk my daughter getting shot?

And this analogy has been used with me multiple times to describe the dynamic we have with non-human intelligent life and the situation we're barreling towards.