Tristan Harris

It makes a prediction.

So it's an AI that's just making a prediction about which video to recommend to you.

But Twitter is doing that with which tweet should be shown to you.

Instagram is doing that with which photo or videos to be shown to you.

And so all of these things are these narrow misaligned AIs just optimizing for one thing, which is what's going to keep you scrolling.

And that was enough to wreck and break democracy and to create the most anxious and depressed generation of our lifetime just by this very simple baby AI.

And people didn't even notice it because it was called social media instead of AI.

But it was the first, we used to call it in this AI dilemma talk that my co-founder and I gave, we called it humanity's first contact with AI because it was just a narrow AI.

And what ChatGPT represents is this whole new wave of generative AI that is a totally different beast because it speaks language, which is the operating system of humanity.

Like if you think about it, it's trained on code, it's trained on text, it's trained on all of Wikipedia, it's trained on Reddit, it's trained on everything, all law, all religion.

And all of that gets sucked into this digital brain that has unique properties.

And that is what we're living with with ChatGPT.

Yeah, exactly.

It's actually everything.

We should establish that first.

Why is language so central?

Code is language.

So all the code that runs all of the digital infrastructure we live by, that's language.

Law is language.

All the laws that have ever been written.