Ed Helms

Because at the very least, nuking space is a great way to get everyone to agree on a few ground rules.

That is our story.

It's been fun taking these diversions with you already.

And all of this to me, like I feel like we've gone to some sort of interesting philosophical places already.

But I do want to pick your brains just a little bit more because the way that.

Our governmental and military institutions approached testing of this nature, to me, feels a lot like the way that we are just lurching blindly into this artificial intelligence era.

And, of course, that also has reverberations very directly to our politics.

business, our industry of filmmaking and television.

But but in a larger sense, we don't know.

We have so many warnings and so many people saying that this could be so catastrophic.

And yet it feels like we're just not.

taking any steps to mitigate that danger in the same way that they were just like, hey, we got to just do it and see what happens with these high altitude nuclear tests.

Well, it's back to Dr. Strangelove, because the whole motivation, to your point about AI, is, well, if we don't do it, someone else is going to do it.

And it's more important that, you know, this incredibly powerful technology is in our hands because we're the good guys and we understand how to navigate this.

And that's exactly what Kubrick is making fun of with that movie, because there's so much hubris involved in that thinking that you can control what is essentially uncontrollable.

But that is the path that we're all hurtling down.

Well, if I may, my anti-AI screed briefly, I think the cynical difference with AI, it's being sold as an existential conflict.

But what's interesting is that on the one hand, you have somebody like Sam Altman or, you know, the folks, the CEOs of these companies or Elon Musk, and they're saying this is going to be universally beneficial in so many ways.

AI's not going to replace your job.

It's going to, you know, automate your brain.