Dr. Robert Lustig
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Tools can be used for good.
They can be used for bad.
Okay.
Nuclear power can run a nuclear reactor, can run a nuclear bomb.
A hammer.
Hammer can hammer a nail.
It can hammer a skull.
Depends on who's using it.
Okay.
There's nothing inherent about the tool that's negative.
What's inherent is the person using the tool.
That's where the negativity is.
So I have nothing against technology per se.
I have something against using technology for evil and for, shall we say, for profit, as opposed to for education, information, and helping people.
That's what I have a problem with.
But that's what we have, unfortunately.
And AI is just basically technology on steroids.
So it's going to make it even worse.
And the reason is because the profit.
It's all about the profit.