Mo Gawdat

If you let me be optimistic about this, we're assuming that there is a moment in the future where AI is in charge of all the decisions and accordingly, stupid leaders are not.

Okay?

Now, when... And Sam Altman himself said that, you know, what if...

Chad GPT-7, if I remember his quote on this, what if Chad GPT-7 is so much more intelligent than I am, Sam, in that case, that it has to become the CEO of OpenAI?

What if the next presidential election, there is an AI that is so much more intelligent that at least the president has to consult with it constantly?

Now, if we assume that, let's start from physics, if you don't mind me saying, not too complex, but if you assume that our entire universe is built on chaos and built on entropy, the physics of the universe is all about the universe trying to decay, then the only role of intelligence is to bring order to the chaos.

If you agree with that, then what's the ultimate physical order of the universe?

Something called the minimum energy principle.

The highest order of any system is a system that's not only efficiently and predictably performing, but it's performing with the least wasted energy.

Correct?

If you agree with that, what does war do?

It wastes a lot of explosives, a lot of money, a lot of lives.

It creates a lot of hate, you know, creates long-lasting conflicts and so on and so forth.

It's a very wasteful process to include war in your approach of running humanity.

And so a super intelligent AI, by definition, would want to optimize against this.

That's one thing.

The other thing is evolutionary biology.

This actually blew me away when I realized it.

So if you look at evolution, so I think the debate of whether intelligence is biological or not is over, okay?

The reality is that complex beings don't have to be biological at all.