Sam Harris

Leaving that aside, we're in an arms race with China, right?

We're in an arms race with, I mean, I guess China's the most plausible, but who knows who else, but we're probably in an arms race with Russia.

I don't know where Russia is on this, but, and-

When you think of the prospect of any authoritarian slash totalitarian regime getting this technology first in what will look like something like a winner-take-all scenario if there really is a binary step function into superintelligence that to be two months ahead of the competition is to basically win the world.

And we could be in some situation like that.

in the event that that just doesn't destroy everything, right, if it just actually confers real power, right, because it's sufficiently aligned with the interests of whoever develops it, that is so compelling that we just, we cannot lose to China above all here.

Certainly when you're talking about, you know, autonomous military technology or,

Anything that would be deployable in our own defense or offense, right?

Cyber security.

Sure.

We can't be behind.

Right.

So that's- No, no, no.

Well, this is a point you've made.

I don't know if you make it in the film, but I've heard you make it, which is, you know, we were first with social media, right?

That's right.

You know, like we were, if you look at that as an arms race that we won.

Correct.

We will get the AI empire.

This makes me think of all these guys in their bunkers who have hired Navy SEALs to protect them for the end of the world.