Tristan Harris
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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?
That if the companies aren't responsible for the harms that show up on their platform because we had the Section 230 free pass, that created this blank check to just go print money on all the harms that are currently getting generated.
So there's a dozen things that we can do from whistleblower protections to shipping non-anthropomorphized AI relationships to having data dividends and data taxes.
There's a hundred things that we can do.
But the main thing is for the world to get clear that we don't want the current path.
And I think in order to make that happen, there has to be first snapping out of the spell of everything that's happening is just inevitable.