Tristan Harris

Good to be here with you.

There's one extra line in there, which is that it's also already demonstrating deceptive, self-preserving behaviors that we thought only existed in science fiction movies.

Yeah, it's an important part because this is not about driving a fear or moral panic.

It's about seeing with clarity how this technology works, why it's different than other technologies, and then in seeing it clearly, saying what would be required for the path to go well.

And the thing that is different about AI from all other technologies is that

I said this in the talk, if you advance rocketry, it doesn't advance biotech.

If you advance biotech, it doesn't advance rocketry.

If you advance intelligence, it advances energy, rocketry, supply chains, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, all of it, including intelligence for artificial intelligence itself.

Because AI is recursive.

If you make AI that can program faster or can read AI papers, research papers.

Then it can summarize those papers and then write the code for the next research projects.

You get kind of a double ratchet of how fast this is going.

And there's nothing in our brains that gives us an intuition for a technology like this.

So we shouldn't assume that any of our perceptions are rightly informing science.

how we might want to be responding.

And this is inviting us, therefore, I think, into a more mature version of ourselves where we have to be able to see clearly the structure of how quickly this is going, how uncontrollable the technology is, how inscrutable it is, and the fact that we don't know how it's really working on the inside when it does these behaviors.

And say, if that's how it's working, what do we want to do?

Yeah.

Well, the key feature of the pace at which AI is rolling out into the world is this arms race.

Because AI confers power, so if intelligence does advance all those other fields... Mm-hmm.