Sam Harris

When you recognize that it still sounds like science fiction to most people, and people can sort of deny it as a purely hypothetical, almost a piece of religious piety, right?

I mean, the Dumerism is cast as a kind of religious cult, like an anti-technology cult.

So you leave that aside, and you just take all of these...

other dystopian ramifications of successfully aligned ai like so what do we do when human labor suddenly becomes vanishingly irrelevant and we don't have a political or economic regime wherein we're going to spread the wealth around and we have all of the political instability as a result of that yeah

What do we do with an explosion of very persuasive misinformation that suddenly we recognize as undermining democracy, and we don't have any of the regulations or ways of preventing that happening?

Right.

But take the social media as an interesting example, because it's an enormous problem.

It's been astonishingly corrosive of our social fabric and of our politics.

The fact that our politics and the quality of our governance is now unrecognizable to many of us is largely attributed to social media.

I think Trump is unrecognizable or unthinkable without Twitter.

But for many people...

certainly the people who voted for Trump and were happy to see him in the White House and who think January 6th was a non-event or a false flag operation, and they've got a dozen conspiracy theories that they love, they think all of this is some species of progress, right?

Yeah.

I mean, you just have the dogma that is, I mean, it's understandable, but it's quite obviously dysfunctional that any kind of top-down control of anything is a step in the direction of Orwellian infringement of freedom.

It's insane.

I hadn't thought about the use case with young children, but for adults, I guess, this is just reasoning from my own experience, but I became somewhat optimistic that the AI sloppification of everything might produce a... Kind of a bankruptcy.

Yeah, we're just going to lose interest in that kind of content.

Because I just, I just see when I, when I, no matter how creative or, you know, beautiful, amazing it, it might seem to be when it's obvious to me that this is just AI, like it's a nature of it.

It looks like the most amazing nature of you video ever.

Right.