Peter Thiel

all these sort of weird pictures where it's this superintelligence that's somehow completely disembodied and is going to kill every last human being on the planet. But there are natural ways to combine it with weapons technology that feel... Unsettling. Unsettling. And just a simple example is that we have this drone technology. That's, again, a new form of technology that's...

come to the fore in the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. And you have a human in the loop, but the human can get jammed. And so the natural fix is to put AI on the drones and turn these into more autonomous weapon systems. And that's... Seems inevitable. That seems like the natural, logical thing to do. And then... Even I, as a pro-tech person, have to say I find that somewhat unsettling.

come to the fore in the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. And you have a human in the loop, but the human can get jammed. And so the natural fix is to put AI on the drones and turn these into more autonomous weapon systems. And that's... Seems inevitable. That seems like the natural, logical thing to do. And then... Even I, as a pro-tech person, have to say I find that somewhat unsettling.

come to the fore in the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. And you have a human in the loop, but the human can get jammed. And so the natural fix is to put AI on the drones and turn these into more autonomous weapon systems. And that's... Seems inevitable. That seems like the natural, logical thing to do. And then... Even I, as a pro-tech person, have to say I find that somewhat unsettling.

And then in the digital realm, and then some ways, even these escape, weren't full escapes. So AI, yeah, that's a, it seems to be just about bits, not atoms, but then if you combine it with a drone, you know, the AI comes back to the physical world.

And then in the digital realm, and then some ways, even these escape, weren't full escapes. So AI, yeah, that's a, it seems to be just about bits, not atoms, but then if you combine it with a drone, you know, the AI comes back to the physical world.

And then in the digital realm, and then some ways, even these escape, weren't full escapes. So AI, yeah, that's a, it seems to be just about bits, not atoms, but then if you combine it with a drone, you know, the AI comes back to the physical world.

Yeah, but the way you're telling the story, it has too much of this timeless and eternal character. This is just what always happens. Yeah, right. Well, that is what I'm wondering. Whereas the story I want to tell has more of a one-time and world-historical character to it, where it is... know there were lots of inventions where people figure out cures for diseases.

Yeah, but the way you're telling the story, it has too much of this timeless and eternal character. This is just what always happens. Yeah, right. Well, that is what I'm wondering. Whereas the story I want to tell has more of a one-time and world-historical character to it, where it is... know there were lots of inventions where people figure out cures for diseases.

Yeah, but the way you're telling the story, it has too much of this timeless and eternal character. This is just what always happens. Yeah, right. Well, that is what I'm wondering. Whereas the story I want to tell has more of a one-time and world-historical character to it, where it is... know there were lots of inventions where people figure out cures for diseases.

That didn't say, okay, now we have to take a step back and cure fewer diseases. That actually encourages you to double down on that and do even more. Or we have all these machines that replace humans in factories. Yeah, there's some downsides to it, and there are labor problems with the Industrial Revolution, and there's a lot of pollution, but on the whole, the good way outweighs the bad.

That didn't say, okay, now we have to take a step back and cure fewer diseases. That actually encourages you to double down on that and do even more. Or we have all these machines that replace humans in factories. Yeah, there's some downsides to it, and there are labor problems with the Industrial Revolution, and there's a lot of pollution, but on the whole, the good way outweighs the bad.

That didn't say, okay, now we have to take a step back and cure fewer diseases. That actually encourages you to double down on that and do even more. Or we have all these machines that replace humans in factories. Yeah, there's some downsides to it, and there are labor problems with the Industrial Revolution, and there's a lot of pollution, but on the whole, the good way outweighs the bad.

And there was no big regulatory counter-movement in Victoria.

And there was no big regulatory counter-movement in Victoria.

And there was no big regulatory counter-movement in Victoria.

But then we get to something like thermonuclear weapons, and that specifically has a very different character. It has a really different character. And probably, I don't know, by the 1950s and 1960s, You know, baby boomers get, you know, you're a kid, you get brought up on Dr. Seuss and not on adventure stories. And it probably changes childhood education.

But then we get to something like thermonuclear weapons, and that specifically has a very different character. It has a really different character. And probably, I don't know, by the 1950s and 1960s, You know, baby boomers get, you know, you're a kid, you get brought up on Dr. Seuss and not on adventure stories. And it probably changes childhood education.

But then we get to something like thermonuclear weapons, and that specifically has a very different character. It has a really different character. And probably, I don't know, by the 1950s and 1960s, You know, baby boomers get, you know, you're a kid, you get brought up on Dr. Seuss and not on adventure stories. And it probably changes childhood education.

It changes the way we form and develop human beings. And it leads to a society where, you know, science and technology no longer have quite of this former valence. There's always sort of an interesting big picture history question of how much science and technology