Tristan Harris

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.

We have to fight back against the default path.

Be pro-technology, but for steering AI, not stopping it.

How could AI physically eliminate the human race?

It's actually hard to imagine all the ways AIs could wipe humans out.

AI is already better than almost all humans at doing cyber hacking.

And so you could imagine one of the things that an AI could do is take out all electricity, water, hospitals, transportation across every country in the world all at once.

Now, that doesn't wipe us all out, but you could imagine the amount of damage that that would do.

Confusion and chaos and craziness.

Exactly.

And we're only, you know, five missed meals away from anarchy.

Did you say we're only five missed meals away from anarchy?

Yeah.

Think about what happens in New York City if you can't get food.

Yeah.