Tristan Harris
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There's also just my mother.
I think she really came from love and she passed away from cancer in 2018.
And she was just made of pure love.
And I that's just infused in me and what I care about.
And I've I don't know, I have a view that like life is very fragile and the things that are beautiful are beautiful.
And I want those beautiful things to continue forever.
I really appreciate yours as well.
And thank you for having me on.
I hope this contributes to making that difference that we both want to see happen.
If you're worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be way more worried about AI.
Because it's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize level capability, work at superhuman speed, and will work for less than minimum wage.
I mean, we're heading for so much transformative change faster than our society is currently prepared to deal with it.
And there's a different conversation happening publicly than the one that the AI companies are having privately about which world we're heading to, which is a future that people don't want.
But we didn't consent to have six people make that decision on behalf of 8 billion people.
Tristan Harris is one of the world's most influential technology ethicists.
And now he's warning us about the catastrophic consequences AI will have on all of us.
Let me, like, collect myself for a second.
We can't let it happen.
But as we're racing, we're landing in a world of unvetted therapists, rising energy prices, and major security risks.
I mean, we have evidence where if an AI model reading a company's email finds out it's about to get replaced with another AI model, and then it also reads in the company email that one executive is having an affair with an employee, the AI will independently blackmail that executive in order to keep itself alive.