Tristan Harris
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So we're actually in a race for who is better at steering and wielding the technology in a way that strengthens the full-stack economic, military, scientific, and technological health and strength of your society.
That's what we're in a race for.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, really, what you're pointing to is a crisis of trust here.
Because at the end of the day, it comes down to we're burning a new kind of power.
It's a power we've never seen before.
When you have Nobel Prize level intelligence capability, like Nobel Prize level physics, math, engineering, coders, super coders, super cyber weapon hackers, like all of that embodied in an A.I.
do unbelievable new things.
It's an unbelievable amount of power.
And the question is, who do you trust with that power?
And the film, The AI Talk, is really getting into that.
It's one of the failure modes, we call it, dystopia.
How do you centralize this power and have it not go badly?
One of the things is you can't centralize the power.
We need checks and balances on it.
We need oversight.
We need democratic oversight.
And regular people should have a say about how they want this to go.
But right now, when we're