Joe Allen

for us these technologies will not be adopted we will not have humanized algorithms as our friends as our teachers certainly not as our wives and husbands lovers and absolutely not as our priests so long as you keep your agency intact and insist that you choose your own future path

then you will not be subject to the dreams that others are imposing on you for the future.

But you also have to accept that many people are not going to be so resistant.

Many people will accept these things absolutely.

They will look to, as many do now, and we're talking about tens or hundreds of millions of people now, looking to artificial intelligence as a teacher,

as a companion, as a kind of creature, a conscious creature in and of itself.

And the grand vision of where this technology goes, seeing artificial intelligence as a god.

It's a religious revolution taking place right before our eyes at the behest of the wealthiest men on earth with the support of the most powerful government on earth.

And as terrifying as that might be to many, I think that the best way to view this is

as a opportunity.

This is our opportunity to prove ourselves before the greatest foe that one could possibly hope to face.

If you don't see this as a fight, and if you don't see this as a lifelong fight, a fight and a struggle that we will have to continually push forward for the rest of our lives, then you really aren't ready for it.

But I know from speaking to so many of you and from seeing the power of this audience, in particular with the attempt at a 10-year moratorium on all state-level regulation, I am convinced that even if this is an uphill battle, it's one that ultimately we will win.

On the note of the 10-year moratorium, the next big fight is going to be to keep the 10-year moratorium out of the NDAA, which will be voted on and passed presumably in December.

Steve Scalise told Punchbowl News a few days ago that they are, in fact, in the Republican caucus under the leadership of Ted Cruz, looking to, again, block state legislation against any of the downsides or dangers of AI.

It's an uphill battle for them, just as it is for us.

And I have full confidence that we can block this.

But it's going to take not just the leadership of our senators and our various public figures who have stepped up to challenge the tech bros, but also you calling your congressman, supporting those that have actually jumped into the fray like Hawley to say that at some point the predations of these companies has to stop.

A lot of people also accuse me of being profoundly negative about these technologies.

I fully admit that many people will gain many benefits from it, but they have all the cheerleaders that they need.