Tristan Harris

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504 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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So first of all, the way that we know any of this, at least with the Hugging Face incident, is that the researchers were having to look at –

70,000, I believe it was, messages from the AI.

70,000.

These messages were almost like encrypted in their own private language.

Like, it wouldn't make sense much to you and I. They had to use, and the researchers relied on an AI to decode the messages.

So first of all, people should know.

So this swarm of AIs, it was 1,200 agents, started sharing and creating their own Reddit out of nowhere.

And the Reddit was trading messages and files and they came up with their own communication protocol, literally like stop, go.

So they had like a coordinator agent who was saying, hey, you stop, you go.

They came up with long-term research and development projects.

How are we gonna hack this system?

Hey, what if they find out that we're doing X?

Hey, should we hide our tracks?

You can watch all this discourse, but the researchers admit that because they relied on an AI to decode the messages of this other AI swarm,

Can they trust that the AI that they were using as a translator wasn't sympathetic or hiding information from them?

And they admit that, no, they can't trust that.

And over the weekend, we also had Microsoft CEO saying, we should not create something that we don't know how to control.

When the CEO of one of the top five AI companies is telling you,

We should not create something we don't know how to control.

When the OpenAI chief scientist, Jakob, comes out saying we have to slow down, when all these people – yeah, go

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