Rory Stewart

No, I'm happy to speak very frankly about all these people.

I will say two things.

The first I'll say is that

Relative to the batting average for companies dealing with ethical issues, where the bar is in hell, think of Exxon, think of Philip Morris, I am very happy that the three leading companies are led by Demis Hassabis, although he's part of Google, so it's how much influence he ultimately has over the steering is more muted.

Dari Amadei and Sam Altman.

These are all above the average.

They've all done things like invest in safety.

Oh, no, but they are also megalomaniacal.

Both of these things can be true.

So in terms of the things you should be worried about, yeah, I mean, entrepreneurs and very successful entrepreneurs are already extremely weird by populations because of the...

It's not an enjoyable job to run a billion dollar company.

So you need to be megalomaniacal to some extent.

You need to be power hungry, power seeking, really want success in some form.

Also a very distinctive thing among such people is incredible competitiveness.

It's striking how often such leaders are like intense game players as well.

So intense competitiveness isn't necessarily what we want in something where cooperation would be much better.

But then the final thing is just imagine the situation you're now in.

where over and over in your life, you have made some crazy bet, some belief that you had that others didn't have, and they were all wrong, and you got proved right, and now you're the billionaire.

Okay, now you've got some new crazy belief, and other people are telling you you're all wrong.

you know, you're going to really kind of back yourself again.