Rory Stewart

And so I think everyone should be very worried about how much power can go.

You know, we've talked about how much power can go into government hands.

That's the thing I'm most worried about.

But I think we should be very worried about how much power could go into company hands as well.

I'm expecting companies to be worth tens of trillions of dollars, again, within just a few years.

With workforces that ultimately go down to one because it's a single person commanding the CEO, commanding a wholly automated workforce.

Again, we'll see this increasingly even just over the next few years.

We'll have single person companies where all the staff are artificial intelligences.

Again, that could lead us, you know, think of the East India Company had its own army.

You know, it was having power on the level of states.

I think it's reasonably likely that we'll get the same with companies too.

I mean, yeah.

The last thing I'll say is Rory has just been grinning this whole time since we've, in a bemused way, since we've gotten onto artificial intelligence.

Again, I want to say, like, I'm not like a science fiction person.

I'm not like an AI hype person.

I don't work for a company.

I work for a non-profit.

I would rather, I would like nothing more than to be wrong about all of this stuff.

I have like come to these conclusions, kicking and screaming by the changes that we're seeing and the forecasts that I think follow from some fairly basic.

Yeah.