Raheem Kassam

What I'm talking about now, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be, you know, our noses pressing against that stuff, you know, this time next year.

This stuff is moving at such a rapid clip.

But by the way, everybody you talk to who does, you know, military tech AI stuff, like the DOD is now, or the Department of War is now dealing with,

effectively they're kids.

And these are people who don't have the, I don't think, and having spoken to so many of them, have the understanding of the gravity of the things at which they're dealing with.

They grew up in a world with machines.

They grew up in a world with computers.

They started swiping on devices from the minute they were born almost.

So they don't consider this to be as dangerous as perhaps you and I do.

We grew up in a world, you know, I was trying to explain what an abacus was to somebody the other day, to somebody at Gen Z. They had no actual earthly concept of it.

So it is deeply concerning, it's deeply dangerous.

And I'm a little bit more pessimistic about it.

You say, you know, we can stop it.

I don't know if you can stop it.

No, there's nothing.

And there's no fallback plans either, right?

We talk about having these machines getting access to weapons of mass destruction, right?

And they will get that access, and they will start making autonomous decisions about this stuff.

Perhaps not in a year, but maybe in two or three years, you'll start to see that creep in.

These machines, once they gain their own sort of thinking, whether they're in separate boxes, you know, not connected to your own personal information or not,