Steven Bartlett

Yeah, he wrote it just after he left Davos.

Daria Amede?

Yeah.

He said, "...humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.

I believe we are entering a rite of passage, both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species."

we are considerably closer to real danger in 2026 than we were in 2023.

If the exponential continues, which is not certain, but now has a decade-long track record supporting it, then it cannot possibly be more than a few years before AI is better than humans at essentially... Everything.

Everything.

The same AI-enabled tools that are necessary to fight autocracies can...

be turned inward to create tyranny in our own countries.

There is an alarming possibility of global totalitarian dictatorship.

AI is so powerful, such a glittering prize, that it is very difficult for human civilization to impose any restraints on it at all.

And he said this remarkable thing in that essay about imagining if there was an island with 50,000 geniuses on it.

Yeah.

What would happen to society?

And I think there's – I don't know.

Like, do you know what?

I hope I'm really wrong about this.

But when I think about this idea that there's 50 million geniuses on this brand new island and I ask myself – I'm willing to work for free.

Willing to work for free.