Joel Pearson

You have something to imagine.

You can imagine it.

Your limbic system amygdala responds to that because when you imagine stuff, you kind of trick the emotional parts of your brain into almost like you're seeing the thing in front of you.

So that's a very emotional thing.

And we know from a lot of psychology, we tend to worry about the things more that are easy to imagine and drive emotion more.

Whereas when I say massive societal disruption, people are like, there's not a killer robot to imagine.

Yeah.

So-

It gets more, you know, it's more clickbaity with articles.

It fires up emotion.

A lot more people get more fearful about it.

But I think, I'm not saying it's not a problem, but I think the societal stuff is here right now and that's where people should be focusing.

Yeah.

And that's also part of the bias that, of course, if you ask the godfathers of AI, they're going to give you an AI style answer, which is this misalignment terminator thing that they're not the experts in education or children or societal functioning, mental health.

So they're not going to talk on those topics.

And if they are, they're not going to give them the sort of airtime they deserve.

Absolutely.

So right, you know, 2026, seeing is no longer believing.

So photographs and video went from something about documenting things that actually happened in the world to now something very different.

There's something that's creative.