Kevin Brown

It's a statistical machine.

It's a calculating machine.

But what is it going to calculate?

And what's it going to do?

And I think that this is an area, and Shaker, you've spoken really inspiringly on this topic of how do we build some of this in now?

Kind of before it's too late.

And so that's why I think this is an urgent moment to bring the cross-functional expertise of the world together.

you know, you know, you know, on this couch, but on all of them, like into like, how do we look at this from the different angles to understand what that impact is going to be on us and the psyche, you know, it's an experiment we've never run.

So it's powerful in both directions.

And so this is back to the state, right?

And that heartless, chilling version in the film is something really to be afraid of.

And you have to build a system that brings it, ultimately the idea of democracy is that how do you reflect the will and the good outcomes for people.

And technology is in a position to really do that instead of a representative one where it's sort of a first approximation of the general beliefs of what someone wants.

But if we at all times knew what everyone wanted and what would be good for them and made decisions in a way that was good for many, many people,

the world could get better you know the decisions the decisions could reflect that uh but you know it used to be we lived in a monolithic culture we had three television channels you could like either elvis or the beatles so those are your choices you know and it was very you know sort of homogenous now we're in a hyper you know sort of heterogeneous you know sort of uh you know branched out because i think at least back in the back of the day you'd have you know when i was at school we would have like you know you have the hippies and you'd have the prog rockers and you'd have

Yeah.

Well, the fragmentation, I think, is the word.

And right now you have people that are using that to turn them against each other because it serves their purposes.

And so can we have a

heterogeneity and diversity, which you then roll that up into better outcomes.