Mo Gawdat

Nick Bostrom started, you know, Geoffrey Hinton completely changed his mind.

Fei-Fei Li is starting to say, you know, this is very serious.

Everyone now, everyone who's ever had a very deep relationship with the machines is a bit concerned.

I bet a hundred percent on that.

It's that this path is very painful.

This path is very painful.

Yeah, so the example you need to understand is, you know, we discovered nuclear power and the very first implementation was a nuclear bomb, not nuclear energy, right?

And I think that's exactly what's happening with AI.

The first implementations of AI are...

in favor of a few at the expense of the majority.

You know, in favor of the capitalist to increase productivity and reduce costs, but not taking into account how that impacts on the general public.

You know, in favor of the armies that are now competing with autonomous weapons, in favor of the surveillance systems that are attempting to control everything with more and more and more intelligence and more monitoring.

And that's not AI waking up in the morning and saying, hey, you know what, let's oppress all humans.

But it is a powerful few that are simply deciding to use the ultimate superpower on the planet today to gain more power and more control.

I mean, as we speak, we're living in two major wars where AI is doing most of the killing.

No, I think there is a hype.

I call it the hype dichotomy, if you want.

So what the general public sees about AI is overhyped, but...

You know, all of the fake videos and all of the, you know, Grok did this and, you know, we attempted to switch off that machine and it did that and so on.

What the real geeks see inside the lab is just...