Tristan Harris

And that's why more money has gone into AI than any other technology.

A different way to think about it is Dario Amadei says that AI is like a country full of geniuses in a data center.

So imagine there's a map and a new country shows up on the world stage, and it has a million Nobel Prize-level geniuses in it.

except they don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't complain, they work at superhuman speed, and they'll work for less than minimum wage.

That is a crazy amount of power.

To give an intuition, there was about, you know, on the order of 50 Nobel Prize-level scientists on the Manhattan Project working for five-ish years.

What could a million Nobel Prize-level scientists create working 24-7 at superhuman speed?

Now, applied for good, that could bring about a world of truly unimaginable abundance, because suddenly you get an explosion of benefits, and we're already seeing many of these benefits land in our society, from new antibiotics, new drugs, new materials.

And this is the possible of AI, bringing about a world of abundance.

But what's the probable?

Well, one way to think about the probable is how will AI's power get distributed in society?

Imagine a two-by-two axis, and on the bottom we have decentralization of power, increasing the power of individuals in society, and the other is centralized power, increasing the power of states and CEOs.

You can think of this as the let it rip axis, and this is the lock it down axis.

So let it rip means we can open source AI's benefits for everyone, every business gets the benefits of AI, every scientific lab, every 16-year-old can go on GitHub, every developing world country can get their own AI model, train on their own language and culture.

But because that power is not bound with responsibility, it also means that you get a flood of deepfakes that are overwhelming our information environment.

You increase people's hacking abilities.

You enable people to do dangerous things with biology.

And we call this endgame attractor chaos.

This is one of the probable outcomes when you decentralize.

So in response to that, you might say, well, let's have regulated AI control.