Tristan Harris

Well, doesn't it take a lot of energy to train a human over 20 years?

A lot of energy and resources and food?

What he's basically saying is we shouldn't value humans.

And this is why you get Peter Thiel stuttering for 17 seconds when he was asked by Ross Douthat in the New York Times, he was asked a simple question, should the human species endure?

And he stuttered for 17 seconds before he could give a clear answer.

I think both of these things are related.

When AI becomes the principal driver of economic growth,

for countries, and when companies don't need people for their growth or their development, then people ask the question, why should you value people?

and so this is the last chance that our political voice as regular people a human movement of regular people this is the last chance that our political voice will really matter and so what i'm deeply hoping is this film the ai doc will really need people to have clarity about where this is going that while there are many benefits we get new medicine we're getting new materials and new science and it's going to be very exciting we're also going to get this mass disempowerment of regular people

And that's an anti-human future.

And so we have to get crystal clear on that so that we can basically act together as a community and steer this a different direction.

There's a lot of ways people can do that.

They can boycott unsafe AI products or AI products that are, you know, have bad safety ratings or are enabling mass surveillance.

You know, people can do small things like grayscale their phone.

You know, you had an advertisement for a product that tries to protect your likeness, right?

People can set a secret password with their family so that we get a phone call and it's like...

or your son and it sounds but you're not sure, the secret password, there's a lot of things people can do.

And I see it not just as an AI topic, but really about technology's encroachment on our humanity writ large.

And just like social media encroached on our brains and our children, the most anxious and depressed generation, we can fight back against that.

And that's what we have to do with AI, too.