Dex Hunter-Torricke

No.

This is the duality of the moment.

It continues to this moment.

I absolutely believe in the power of technology.

No one's ever accusing me of being anti-tech.

Technology is something that can be and should be deeply hopeful if it's managed well.

Is it being managed well by our societies?

No.

tech industry leaders meeting the moment and the nature of the disruption that is now unfolding as a result of AI and a bunch of these breakthrough technologies?

Absolutely not.

And so that's why I'm no longer in the industry.

I don't think that's the right perch to be for somebody who wants to focus their time on figuring out how as societies do we get out of the mess that is the consequence

the backdrop of a technologically infused civilization in the year 2026.

But the technology itself could do wonderful things, right?

That is the complex everyday duality, which infects every part of how we think about these technologies, which is why lots of leaders, lots of institutions, lots of regulators, they really struggle with this stuff.

AI might help us cure all diseases this century.

That is something which lots of scientists are very hopeful about.

We're going to see the first drugs coming to market in the next few years, which have been developed with the help of AI, which can treat cancers and all sorts of things.

That's real.

But at the same time, you also have AI driving disinformation and hate and cyber weapons and all these things, fueling autonomous weaponry and AI military targeting systems right now in action today in the Middle East, which are inflicting enormous damage on people's lives.