Mustafa Suleyman

understand the

faces and the images and the patterns of massive crowds of people walking around in our societies.

And the cost of building one of those things is going to be zero marginal cost.

And that certainly can be used for a lot of good, right?

So everyone's going to have access to them in 20 years, maybe even much earlier.

I mean, we want to have a police force that is capable of instilling order and structure and so on.

And that's going to completely change how we get things done, how we interact with one another, and potentially cause a huge amount of chaos.

On the flip side, that also makes it easier for authoritarians

And so a little bit of friction in the system could be our friend here.

despots of any kind to identify minority groups that they want to get rid of right and it'll just be much easier to find the needle in the haystack um and again that has like amazing benefits because you can catch the bad guy but it also is potentially scary and so each one of these steps forward has that balancing act between the harms and the benefits

And that's really all that I'm positing in the containment hypothesis.

Containing things so that we can collectively as a society think carefully about the potential future consequences and the third order effects.

That seems like a rational thing to do at this point.

Yeah, good question.

There are lots of potential ways that this technology gets misused.

In some respects, this concentrates power.

Well, one way of thinking about it is that intelligence is the thing that has made us productive and successful as a species.

It makes it easier for a small group of people to see what is happening in an entire ecosystem, i.e.

understand the

It's not just our muscle or our brawn, it's actually our minds.