Tristan Harris

And so it's actually hard to imagine all the ways AIs could wipe humans out, because we're going to set up obstacles, but it's going to be smarter than us, it'll get around.

Think about though, it says in the film that it's a little bit like ants.

If we want to build a highway and there's an ant colony in the way, we just pave over, it's too bad for the ants.

And so to give a couple examples, stepping from like really bad into extinction, the really bad is AI is already better than almost all humans at making computer code, which means it's starting to get better than almost all humans at doing cyber hacking.

And so you could imagine one of the things that an AI could do is take out all electricity, water, hospitals, transportation across every country in the world all at once.

Now, that doesn't wipe us all out, but you could imagine the amount of damage that that would do.

Confusion and chaos and craziness that happens.

And we're only, you know, five missed meals away from anarchy.

Did you say we're only five missed meals away from anarchy?

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Think about what happens in New York City if you can't get food.

Yeah.

I think this is a good point because what you just said, most of us can't even, we hear you're going to wipe out humanity and everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that won't be in my lifetime.

And so the fact that you just listed all the different ways it can shut down everything that we're doing, I don't think a lot of people have thought about that.

Well, also when you're using ChatGPT or Claude, you just had this blinking cursor that told you why your baby's burping and it's super helpful.

Why is that blinking cursor?

How could that destroy the world?

Yeah.

So imagine that we're a bunch of chimpanzees and we're about to birth these super smart chimps called humans.