Tristan Harris

And I'm not saying that because I believe necessarily the current paradigm that we're building on will take us there.

But, you know, I'm based in San Francisco.

I talk to people at the AI labs.

Half these people are friends of mine, you know, people at the very top level.

And, you know, most people in the industry believe that they'll get there between the next two and ten years at the latest.

And I think some people might say, oh, well, it may not happen for a while.

Phew, I can sit back and we don't have to worry about it.

And it's like we're heading for so much transformative change faster than our society is currently prepared to deal with it.

And the reason I was excited to talk to you today is because I think that people are currently confused about AI.

You know, people say it's going to solve everything, cure cancer, solve climate change.

And there's people say it's going to kill everything.

It's going to be doom.

Everyone's going to go extinct.

If anyone builds it, everyone dies.

And those conversations don't converge, right?

And so everyone's just kind of confused where how can it be infinite promise and how can it be infinite peril?

And what I wanted to do today is to really clarify for people what the incentives point us towards, which is a future that I think people, when they see it clearly, would not want.

So what are the incentives pointing us towards in terms of the future?

Yeah.

So first is if you believe that this is like, it's metaphorically, it's like the ring from Lord of the Rings.