Tristan Harris

If we don't want that future, if we don't want millions of jobs automated without a transition plan where people will not be able to put food on the table and retrain to something else fast enough,

We have to do something about that.

If we don't want AI-based surveillance states where AI and an LLM hooked up to all these channels of information erases privacy and freedom forever, that's a red line.

We don't want that future.

If AI creates AI companions that are incentivized to hack human attachment and screw up the social fabric and young men and women and create AI girlfriends and relationships, that's a red line.

We don't want that.

If AI creates, you know, inscrutable, crazy, super intelligent systems that we don't know how to control and we're not on track to controlling, that's a red line.

So these are four red lines that we can agree on.

And then we can set policy to say, if we do not want the default maximalist, you know, most reckless, no guardrails path future, we need a global movement for a different path.

And that's a bigger tent.

That's not just one thing.

It's not just about jobs.

It's what is the AI future that's actually in service.

So when you see that data center going up in your backyard, what is the set of laws that says that that data center, when I see it, isn't 10 million digital immigrants that's going to replace all my jobs and my livelihoods.

That's actually meant to support me.

So what are the laws that get us there?

And my job and what I want people to get is to be part, your role hearing all this is not to solve the whole problem, but to be part of humanity's collective immune system, using this clarity of what we're currently heading towards to advocate for we need a different future.

People should be calling their politicians saying, AI is my number one issue that I'm voting on in the next election.

People should be saying, how do we pass AI liability laws so there's at least some responsibility for the externalities that are not showing up on the balance sheets of these companies?

What is the lesson we learned from social media?