Mustafa Suleyman

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

And our ability to make predictions

in complex environments to solve hard problems, this is really the essence of what makes us special and creative.

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

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

We learn to use tools and we invent things.

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

So that intelligence, that technique of being able to predict what's going to happen next,

despots of any kind to identify minority groups that they want to get rid of.

that is actually something that we're increasingly learning to automate and, you know, essentially turn into an intelligence system that can be used by everybody.

And it'll just be much easier to find the needle in the haystack.

And again, that has amazing benefits because you can catch the bad guy, but it also is potentially scary.

So what does that mean?

That means, okay, well, we now have this very thing that made us smart and productive and created civilization.

And so each one of these steps forward has that balancing act between the harms and the benefits.

That very concept, intelligence, is going to be cheap and abundant.

Hmm.

Just like energy, frankly oil, has turbocharged the creation of our species, and we now have 7 billion people on the planet, largely as a result of the proliferation of oil, the next wave is that everybody is going to get access to personalized, real-time knowledge, and a companion, an aid, a coach,

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

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