Tristan Harris

And this is exactly what the tobacco industry did.

And the fear, uncertainty, doubt campaigns and sort of manufacturing doubt.

Well, maybe here's these five kids that got all this benefit from talking to this therapy bot and they're doing so great now.

So you just cite those positive examples, cherry pick, and then, you know, the world marches on while you keep printing money in the meantime.

And so their goal is just to defer and delay regulation.

and we can't allow that to happen.

But again, this is just one issue of the bigger arms race to AGI and the bigger race to develop this bigger form of intelligence.

The reason I'm saying that, Scott, is not to just be some AGI hyper.

The reason that character.ai was doing all this, by the way, do you know why it was set up to talk to kids and get all this training data?

What's that?

Well, it's to build training data for Google to build an even bigger system.

Because what's the thing that the companies are running out of?

They're running out of training data.

So it's actually a race for who can figure out new social engineering mechanisms to get more training data out of human social primates.

So it's like the matrix.

We're being extracted.

And we're being extracted, though, for new training data.

And so when you have fictional characters that are talking to people back and forth about everything all day, that's giving you a whole new, it's like you open up a whole new critical minerals goldmine of training data.

And what is that in service of?

It's in service of their belief that the more data we have, the faster we can get to artificial general intelligence.