Tristan Harris

If everybody, they just charge advertising for all the chat GPT usage, so suddenly you have embedded ads everywhere.

That's also not enough to make back the amount of money they've taken on.

The only thing that justifies the amount of money that they have raised is that they can replace all economic labor in the economy, the $50 trillion labor economy.

That's the incentive.

As we said many times in this program with you, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's business partner said, if you shouldn't

How did you and I predict social media back in 2017?

If you saw that the incentive was the race for eyeballs and engagement and duration of use and frequency of use, you're going to get a digital brain rot machine, which is what's keeping all of our young people doom scrolling.

And so with AI, the way that you can predict which way this is going to go is it's not short term.

It's augmenting workers.

It's helping you.

It's a blinking cursor.

But long term, these companies, their goal is not to do that.

Their goal is to replace you.

And I think that means that you won't have – you and me and everybody else who just has a regular job – you won't have political power after the GDP of countries starts to come from AI and data centers and not from people.

Because now the companies don't need you for their labor and governments don't need you for your tax revenue.

This is called the intelligence curse that much like –

You know, there are countries that discovered a natural resource like Congo or Sudan or Venezuela.

And when all of their GDP starts to come from that resource, what was a blessing of that resource becomes a curse because now the entire country kind of organizes itself around mining that resource.

Well, in the case of intelligence, AI is the new resource.

It's the new thing that's going to drive all economic growth.