Konstantin Kisin

uh the animals in your zoo doing a revolution it's not really gonna like make the government not work anymore um so yeah that's one i mean another thing that's sort of tougher to think about is the future in general will be so much richer whether humans are in control of it or not or how many humans are in control of it and so it will just make sense just from very small amounts of philanthropy as a fraction of the wealth that some people or some ais will have in the future we take a very small fraction of it to make everybody much better off than they are today

We're giving people millions of every single person millions of dollars would be a small fraction of like, you know, I've got Elon Musk wants to build a mass driver on the moon and colonize the solar system.

And it takes a small fraction of that to just make everybody incredibly rich.

But it's still skyrocketing inequality.

And so, yeah, you could have a world where the gap is way, way, way wider, but everybody's still better off.

And I think even in that world, I would say, well, okay, but still, if the AIs are building the mass driver of the moon, I think that entitles all humans to much more of the products of that productivity explosion.

Yeah.

So there's an inequality problem, maybe to just raise another.

I think...

The AIs have the potential to make authoritarian societies much more sustainable and powerful than they have been in the past.

100%.

So we talked about the fact that the robot arms are running everything in the future.

Here's another angle, mass surveillance.

100%.

Right now in the US, there's 100 million CCTV cameras.

Okay, so suppose that each of those cameras, you take a frame every 10 seconds and you have an AI process it.

And just you can do the back of the envelope calculations here of like, okay, if you have models that can process video frames that it costs a certain amount of cents to do each frame, how much would it cost to process all 100 million CCTV cameras in America?

And it's $30 billion.

Okay, now that's not that much.

Every year, a given level of AI capabilities gets 10x cheaper.