Sam Harris

Stage plays, maybe we're never going to want to see robots on stage acting Shakespeare.

I don't think so.

Maybe it's also sports.

We're never going to want to see robots in the NBA because we just want to see what the best people can do in the NBA.

But still, you're talking about 1% of the human employment.

Right.

Exactly.

So there are jobs that will be canceled and they'll be canceled for all time in the same way that being the best chess player in any room has been canceled for all time.

That's right.

That is now a machine and it's always going to be a machine.

Well, they have a very different set of incentives and just a political context in which all of this is going to be rolled out.

I mean, they want, presumably they want to pump steroids into their social credit system and facial recognition.

And we should be clear, we don't want that.

So what do you think are the plausible near-term steps?

If everyone got religion on this point and they acknowledge that

There's an alignment problem in the limit, but short of that, this increasingly powerful, however perfectly aligned tech is going to have all of these unintended but foreseeable consequences like unemployment, like wealth concentration that is politically unsustainable, and unhappy interactions with things like social media, you know, deep fakes and all of that.

If you had the magic wand that could start accomplishing regulation or entrepreneurial efforts to build benign uses of technology that would put out some of these fires or prevent them, what is near term that could actually be acted upon?

I feel like most people probably have heard of AI psychosis, but you might define it.

It's a sycophantic behavior the AI is causing people to kind of spiral into

whether it's a Messiah complex or some other, you know, attractor on the landscape of madness.