Tristan Harris

But it forces everyone to be incentivized to take the most shortcuts, to care the least about safety or security, to not care about how many jobs get disrupted, to not care about the well-being of regular people, but to basically just race to this infinite prize.

So there's a quote that a friend of mine interviewed a lot of the top people at the AI companies, like the very top.

And he just came back from that and basically reported back to me and some friends.

And he said the following quote.

In the end, a lot of the tech people I talk to, when I really grill them on it about why you're doing this, they retreat into number one, determinism, number two, the inevitable replacement of biological life with digital life, and number three, that being a good thing anyways.

At its core, it's an emotional desire to meet and speak to the most intelligent entity that they've ever met.

And they have some ego-religious intuition that they'll somehow be a part of it.

It's thrilling to start an exciting fire.

They feel they'll die either way, so they prefer to light it and see what happens.

Doesn't that match what you have?

That's the perfect description.

Doesn't it?

And that's the thing.

So people may hear that and they're like, well, that sounds ridiculous.

But if you actually... I just got goosebumps because it's the perfect description, especially the part they'll think they'll die either way.

Exactly.

Well, and worse than that...

Some of them think that in the case where they – if they were to get it right and if they succeeded, they could actually live forever.

Because if AI perfectly speaks the language of biology, it will be able to reverse aging, cure every disease.

And so there's this kind of I could become a god.