Ray Kurzweil

The difficulty comes, we've got pretty good technology to transform the individual.

psychotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, all the way to psychedelics, et cetera.

When we get together in a group, it turns out our collective intelligence is really bad.

Group think.

We end up with the lowest common denominator.

You can see that in our politics.

And solving that with AI is, I think, one of the biggest opportunities for humanity, is solving the gap between group think and what AIs can do at the collective level.

So I'm going to jump in one second.

Our very own AWG needs to depart the stage.

I wanted to give you a moment, Alex, to give some of your summation thoughts, if you would like, on Ray's impact on your work or anything else you'd like to talk, and then we'll continue.

First of all, Ray, thank you so much for being here.

You've completely transformed my life.

That goes without saying.

We've had a number of conversations about this previously.

I would say that

sometimes I guess Peter has been called your intellectual son and I've been called your intellectual grandson.

So to the extent that we've got multiple generations here of singularitarians all sitting next to each other.

That makes me very old.

So who cares?

That's true.