Tristan Harris

Because in an abstract sense, it's not that motivating.

When I think about me and my kids, it anchors this discussion about AI in terms of the things that people most care about, which is their family.

So then the film...

After the director sort of is confronted by all this and he gets overwhelmed and he kind of freaks out to his wife thinking, oh, my God, I don't know what to do.

And she says, you have to go find hope.

And so he turns around and he goes out and he talks to all the AI optimists.

So this is Peter Diamandis.

This is, you know, Guillaume Verdun, who's Beth Jesus, otherwise known as online, basically the tech accelerationists and people who think that our biggest risk is not going fast enough.

Think of all the people with cancer or all the people whose lives that we won't be able to save if we don't make AI faster than we're making it right now.

My reaction, I think going sort of a step back, there's a thing in AI that we have to acknowledge there's an asymmetry.

The upsides don't prevent the downsides.

The downsides can undermine a world that can sustain the upsides.

So for example, the cancer drugs can't prevent a new biological pathogen that's designed to wipe out humanity.

But the biological pathogen that can wipe out humanity undermines a world in which cancer drugs are relevant at all.

AI generating GDP growth of 10, 15% because it's automating all science, all technology development, all military development, automating abundance sounds great.

But if the same AI that can do that also generates cyber weapons that can take down the entire financial system...

which one of those things matter more?

15% GDP growth or the thing that can undermine the basis of money and GDP at all?

So it's very important.

The film doesn't actually make this point.