Tristan Harris

It's the ring that creates infinite power.

Because if I have AGI, I can apply that to military advantage.

I can have the best military planner that can beat all battle plans for any one.

And we already have AIs that can obviously

beat Garry Kasparov at chess, beat Go, the Go Asian board game, or now beat StarCraft.

So you have AIs that are beating humans at strategy games.

Well, think about StarCraft compared to an actual military campaign in Taiwan or something like that.

If I have an AI that can out-compete in strategy games, that lets me out-compete everything.

Or take business strategy.

If I have an AI that can do business strategy and figure out supply chains and figure out how to optimize them and figure out how to undermine my competitors...

and I have a step function level increase in that compared to everybody else, then that gives me infinite power to undermine and outcompete all businesses.

If I have a super programmer, then I can outcompete programming.

70% to 90% of the code written at today's AI labs is written by AI.

Thinking about the stock market as well.

Thinking about the stock market.

If I have an AI that can trade in the stock market better than all the other AIs, because currently there's mostly AIs that are actually trading in the stock market, but if I have a jump in that, then I can consolidate all the wealth.

If I have an AI that can do cyber hacking, that's way better at cyber hacking in a step function above what everyone else can do, then I have an asymmetric advantage over everybody else.

So AI is like a power pump.

It pumps economic advantage.

It pumps scientific advantage.