Tristan Harris

We have AI companions.

We have democratic deliberations where we say, hey, I wish you want companion AIs for older people because they don't carry the same developmental risks as they do for young people.

That's a distinction we can have.

We can have AI therapists that are more doing like a cognitive behavioral therapy and imagination exercises and mindfulness exercises without actually anthropomorphizing and trying to be your best friend and trying to be an oracle where you share your most intimate thoughts.

So there's different kinds of AI therapists.

Instead of tutors that are trying to, you know, be your oracle and your best friend at the same time, we can have narrow tutors that are only domain specific like Khan Academy.

that teach you narrow lessons, but are not trying to be your best friend about everything, which is where we're currently going.

So there's a whole set of distinctions about we can have this, not that.

We can have this, not that across tutors, therapy, AI that's augmenting work, AI that's narrow AIs that take a lot less power, by the way, and are more directly applied.

So for example, I have a friend who has found that

He estimates that it would cost two to 10 orders of magnitude less data and energy to train these narrow AIs.

And you can apply it more specifically to agriculture and get 30 to 50% boost in agriculture just from applying more narrow kinds of AI rather than these super intelligent gods in a box.

So there is another path.

But it would take deploying AI in a very different way.

We could also be using AI to, by the way, accelerate governance.

How do we apply AI to look at the legal system and say, how do we sunset all the old laws that are actually not relevant anymore for the new context?

Hey, what were the spirit of those laws that we actually want to protect in the new context?

Hey, AI, could you go to work and kind of come up with the distinctions that we need to help update all those laws?

Could we use AI to actually help find the common ground?

Audrey Tang's work, the former digital minister of Taiwan, to find the common ground between all citizens.