Tristan Harris

Intelligence automates better programming, better chip design.

So I can use AI to say, here's a design for the NVIDIA chips.

Go make it 50% more efficient.

And it can find out how to do that.

I can say, AI, here's a supply chain that I need for all the things for my AI company.

And it can optimize that supply chain and make that supply chain more efficient.

AI, here's the code for making AI.

Make that more efficient.

AI, here's training data.

I need to make more training data.

Go run a million simulations of how to do this, and it'll train itself to get better.

So AI accelerates AI.

I think it's almost mythological because there's almost a way in which they're building a new intelligent entity that has never before existed on planet Earth.

It's like building a god.

I mean, the incentive is build a god, own the world economy, and make trillions of dollars.

If you could actually build something that can automate all intelligent tasks, all goal achieving, that will let you out-compete everything.

So that is a kind of godlike power that I think relative – imagine energy prices go up or hundreds of millions of people lose their jobs.

Those things suck.

But relative to if I don't build it first and build this god, I'm going to lose to some maybe worse person who I think, in my opinion, not my opinion, Tristan, but their opinion thinks is a worse person.

It's a kind of competitive logic that self-reinforces itself.