Mustafa Suleyman
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And it didn't make sense to me that there wasn't gender equality.
It didn't make sense to me that people who chose to get with a member of the same sex suddenly got demonized and they were like...
And I think that more than anything, we have to have
so much more empathy and kindness for people who have been through that struggle.
There tends to be a sort of, you know, a demonizing of refugees or migrants as though they're like coming to steal something from our stable worlds.
evil somehow that none of that made sense to me.
Whereas a human rights framework respects everybody as equals.
And I just can't see how that isn't the right way to live.
But in fact, they're actually fleeing insane hardship.
So yeah, I became an atheist and secular and, you know, a big believer in these kinds of rights frameworks for everyone.
So we have to be way more compassionate and forgiving and kind to those kinds of people.
And remember that those people are just like us.
Our societies could fall apart in the US, in the UK, in Europe, just as their societies happen to be falling apart at this moment in time.
Well, think about AI as a force amplifier.
So the question is, which force is it amplifying and which...
And we have to extend a hand of friendship and love.
And the human rights framework taught me that.
frame is it placing on the amplification?
Because I grew up as a pretty strict Muslim.
So what set of values, what ideas is it putting out into the world?