Dex Hunter-Torricke

And I think actually the things that most people want in the world, including the United States and the UK, wherever you look, are generally things that were pretty timeless.

They want to be able to give their kids a better quality of life.

than they have.

They want to be able to live in peace.

They don't want to have to worry about going to war.

They want to preserve nature.

They want to have a climate that isn't something that's collapsing.

And when you really wake people up to the fact that there is no plan for any of these things now, and we're almost out of time, and there is still a chance to not only avert the disaster, but here's the thing, what if we could use all that technology now

with a very different vision of our societies and our politics and our economics to build a radically better future, something that really does solve these problems for all time in a big way, then a lot of people get really hopeful.

They get excited about that.

So this is the stuff that I'm going around the world talking about.

I absolutely don't believe we solve our problems by pretending they don't exist.

There's a certain strain of people who think, oh, this is too depressing.

Let's not talk about all these things.

But if you can admit the path we're on is not working, but then also wake people up to what could the tech really do if it was harnessed with an agenda designed to truly provide a good life to everyone, not just that narrow sliver of billionaires and to the tiny percentage of people, then people really, I think in many cases, they long for it.

They wish that there was something coming that would save us.

I mean, it's something which I think there probably are real consequences, right?

I mean, things that we may not even know about, you know, the lack of transparency in how algorithms operate means that certain content may be deprioritized when it's critical or, you know, touches certain issues.

That's something, you know, I was at Meta's oversight board, you know, a few years ago, which, you know, was an independent body looking at how content was managed on these platforms and the things that the company did every day to put its thumb on the scale.

Yeah.