Tristan Harris

And the metaphor here is instead of China being the new country that pops up in the world stage, now there's this new Dario Amadei, the CEO of Anthropic, this new country of geniuses in a data center that appears on the world stage.

And it has a population of a billion AI beings that work at superhuman speed, don't whistleblow, generate new material science, new engineering, new AI girlfriends, new everything.

And it generates all that for super cheap.

And so just like the free trade NAFTA story, we got all the cheap goods, but it hollowed out the middle class.

Well, now we're going to get all the cheap products and development and science, but it's also going to hollow out the entirety of our country.

Think of it like a new country of digital immigrants, right?

You know, Yuval Harari makes this metaphor.

It's like when you see a data center go up in Virginia and you're sitting there, what you should see is like 10 million digital immigrants that just took 10 million jobs.

I think that people just need to unify these stories.

And one other sort of visual for this is like the game Jenga.

The way we're building our AI future right now is like if you look at the game Jenga, if you look at the top of the tower, you know, we're putting a new block on the top, like we're going to get 5% GDP growth because we're going to automate all this labor.

But how do we get that 5% GDP growth?

We pulled out a block from the middle and the bottom of the tower.

That's job security and a livelihood for those tens of millions of people that now don't have a new job.

Because who's going to retrain faster?

The AI that's been trained on everything and is rapidly advancing in every domain?

Or a human that's going to try to train on new cognitive labor.

That's not going to happen.

And people need to get this because this is different from other transitions.

People always say, well, hey, 150 years ago, everybody was a farmer, and now only 2% of people are farmers.