Tristan Harris

And we can have a digital AI influencer that is actually publishing all the time and is just a pure advertising play and a pure sort of whatever gets people's attention play.

And we're going to replace those people and you're not going to have that job back.

And so I think that's a metaphor for what's going to happen across the board.

And people need to realize the stated mission of OpenAI and Anthropic and Google DeepMind

is to build artificial general intelligence that's built to automate all forms of human labor in the economy.

So when Elon Musk says that the Optimus robot is a $20 trillion market opportunity alone, what he says, like the code word behind that, forget whether you think it's hype or not, the code word there is what he's saying is, I'm gonna own the global world labor economy.

Labor will be owned by an AI economy.

And so AI provides more concentration of wealth and power than all other technologies in history because you're able to aggregate all forms of human labor, not just one.

So it's like General Electric becomes General Everything.

So people often think when they hear all this, maybe they hear me and they say he's a doomer or something like that.

I just want to get clear on what future we're currently heading towards, what the default trajectory is.

If we're clear-eyed about that, clarity creates agency.

If we don't want that future, if we don't want millions of jobs automated without a transition plan where people will not be able to put food on the table and retrain to something else fast enough,

We have to do something about that.

If we don't want AI-based surveillance states where AI and an LLM hooked up to all these channels of information erases privacy and freedom forever, that's a red line.

We don't want that future.

If AI creates AI companions that are incentivized to hack human attachment and screw up the social fabric and young men and women and create AI girlfriends and relationships, that's a red line.

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.