Tristan Harris

And now a rogue actor can do something very dangerous with AI.

So we have to be very careful about what we're letting rip and how we open source it.

People say we have to lock it down.

We have to have only five players do this in a very safe and trusted way.

This is more of the policy of the last administration.

But then there you get the risk of a handful of actors that then accumulate all the wealth and all the power.

And there's no checks and balances on that because how do you have something that's a million times more powerful be checkable by other forces that don't have that power?

And what we need to find is something like a commitment to a narrow path where we are balancing responsibility and power along the way.

And we have foresight and discernment about the effects of every technology.

So what would that look like?

It's like humanity wakes up and says, we have to get onto another path.

We pass basic laws, again, like liability laws and around AI companions.

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.