Joel Pearson

Word of the moment?

Yeah, uncertain at the moment.

AI is changing so quickly.

People predict in this linear straight line, but AI is going like that.

We don't know how good it's going to get, how far it's going to go.

And that just kind of gets to this state where we can't predict the future at all.

And that's where this uncertainty is coming from.

Think of COVID times 1,000, times 10,000, like that kind of disruption.

everything we do more and more to AI, what is going to happen to our brains?

What's going to happen to our ability to think and make decisions by ourselves?

Some people are predicting that we're going to see the first generation where the IQ is lower than the generation before.

AI companions.

The idea is this is like a companion you'll confide in, you'll talk to, and you'll build a relationship with.

In adults, we've seen people having multi-year, deep, loving relationships, marriage ceremonies.

Now we have this sort of range of character AI and all these other

companion apps which are pretty much designed for young people some people are now talking about this you know we've been through however many a decade of this attention hacking it's a tension economy of social media these companion apps that's attachment hacking attachment jesus so we've touched on how the human race is completely fucked um you're an optimist i am i think of myself as a tech optimist you're a tech optimist i'm an

Thank you.

Nice intro.

Yeah, uncertain at the moment.

Well, obviously AI at the moment.