Mustafa Suleyman

You know, there are tons of young people on there who are designing these manipulative negging bots, which will like form a relationship and then try and shake you down for money and pull away and go ghosting and stuff like this.

And then there are like how-to videos showing it and people, you know, showing their account, their PayPal accounts about how much money they're making and so on.

I mean, there are lots of these examples coming up.

And just to be clear, we've seen this at every single wave of technology.

You know, when app stores were very open 10 years ago, there were surveillance apps, you know, to track a girlfriend or, you know, boyfriend or a partner and spy on them.

Most of the time was obviously a girlfriend.

And, you know, those things were really awful.

They were basically about getting revenge.

And, you know, now that we've got photorealistic porn that can be morphed onto the body or face of someone that you know, there are these like, you know, deep fake porn sites that you can just spin up in a second.

So this is where we need activist, interventionist, confident governments

that can you know move quickly close things down you know require us as companies but also the open web to just be very aggressive and swift and you know we might sweep things up like in some ways the false positive false negative threshold is going to shift a little bit so it may be that we sweep up things and that we're over interventionist and i think that's the definition of

of putting the precautionary principle into practice.

This is a moment where it's better to be a bit careful.

And, you know, that's very unfamiliar to us, right?

Because in the past, science and technology has been about like, you know, ripping the wrapping off your present and trying to like pull it open as fast as possible and get it out there and shove it to everybody the world over.

And that has been amazing for humanity.

And now the culture has to shift a little bit.

You know, first of all, reducing the cost of intelligence necessarily means that people who want to do bad things are going to have a massively easier time of it.

It's going to be like having a team of very smart strategists and program managers and engineers around you.

And so just as the last wave of technology reduced the cost of broadcast and now, you know, you barely need a team of a few people to help you do the amazing things that you do, you know, we are reducing the cost of action, right?