Tristan Harris

about AI, what that means is that the companies win.

The default path that's led by the companies and their incentives, that's what wins.

And I'll just tell you that the handful of CEOs running these companies, they're not interested in what's good for regular people because they're only interested in what will enable them to win the race.

It's how you get Sam Altman.

Just two weeks ago, he was asked at the India AI Summit, the big AI summit happening in India, he was asked, well, doesn't it take a lot of energy to train and to run AI?

And you know what his response was?

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.