Tristan Harris

I love that you're an apoco-optimist.

What is an apoco-optimist?

And you did a great job pronouncing it.

Believe me, I was practicing in front of the audience.

I was going to say, is Oprah going to get this right?

And of course, you nailed it.

An apoco-optimist is a way of being.

It's a worldview.

In a world that is asking us to see AI as this apocalyptic thing,

or to see AI with unbridled optimism, what the film is advocating for is both, the nuance of both.

This is good and bad.

There is promise and peril.

And these two facets of good and bad are threaded together.

And so what we're advocating for is like, what are the common sense, you know, policies that can be implemented to just sort of guide this towards the optimistic future everybody wants?

Well, only a handful of companies are the driving force behind most artificial intelligence, as you showed us in the film.

The leaders of three of those tech giants appear in the film.

Sam Altman, you got Sam Altman to sit down, from OpenAI, Dario Amadei from Anthropic, and Demis Hassabis from Google, DeepMind.

So let's take a look at some of what they say in this film.

It would be impossible for me to sit across from you and ask you to promise me that this is going to go well.

That is impossible.