Ed Helms

AI research and rapid development also has this –

almost like a supernatural component to it where there's this compulsion to be the first contact with this sort of alien – in the case of nuclear energy, an alien energy source or something so – like –

hitherto completely unknown to humanity much like you brought up Prometheus earlier in that way that like Prometheus was like that first touch of fire to man and nuclear energy was the same and

With AI, it's that first contact with this being that we're creating that might be sort of bigger, grander, and more intelligent than all of us.

That is so intoxicating that certain people just cannot resist being that first, that one who's going to get there first.

Yeah.

Well, I think it comes back to the same thing about Chris, you and like you and I not really wanting to go to space and you were kind of asking like why.

And for me, the answer is that there's too much here.

Like there's, there's so much unexplored here.

There's so much we don't understand here about people and earth and everything that I don't, I do not see the appeal necessarily of feeling the need to go out and, and know what's out there.

I don't know that I need to know.

And I kind of feel the same way about AI.

I don't really need to know what it's capable of and what it can do.

And we don't know.

And I want to be clear.

I do think it's important in any society to have individuals who look at the hill and say, I want to know what's on the other side of that hill, because otherwise you become stagnant and you don't move forward.

So, but I do think there is, it cannot simply be

A zero-sum game of reckless abandon as we, like you said, Ed, rush headlong into something we don't fully understand and simply point at the stock market and say, number go up, we're good as we move forward.

Well, I think that's a great place to wrap it up.

Thank you so much, Chris and Lizzie, for joining me on Snafu.