Konstantin Kisin

It's going to need the data centers.

It's going to need all these things that human civilization has built.

So we have a lot of leverage.

Now, of course, the Incas and the Aztecs had a lot of quote-unquote leverage on paper in the New World.

One important way in which our situation is different and is favorable to us as compared to having some invader come at us is that we get to shape

the personalities and the drives and really the souls of these things in an incredibly deep way.

So right now, if somebody commits a crime, you send them to prison, and hopefully they come out reformed.

Here's what you can't do.

You can't go inside their brain

and tweak things in a very particular way, run them in a simulation millions of times, and see, oh, did I decrease the probability that they'll commit a crime in the future if I tweak their brain this way?

And not only can you not do that, with AIs, we can do a further thing, which is say, okay, now all your descendants will have their brain structure modified based on what we learned from modifying your brain, right?

So we have this incredible ability to control...

engineer these AI systems and AI minds, where it's like, really, it's not Pizarro or Aztec, these sort of psychopaths who have just come from foreign lands.

It's more something that they have developed.

They're getting to see its development, what impact it's having.

They can change those systems.

Now, it does mean that over time, you might lose the ability as they're getting more powerful, as they're controlling more things.

You lose the ability to, if you don't get it right,

in these initial few years where you have a lot of leverage, then you're screwed.

So you really need to make sure that you actually understand what the drives the AIs have, that you really have them in control.