Tristan Harris

Now it's not clear the economic output on its own is actually valuable in the way that we have traditionally thought it to be because it's correlated with human wellbeing for the past.

But now we're about to get this weird kind of zombie form of economic output where you have maybe no humans in the world at all.

You just have AI pumping away, generating scientific insights and there's no humans.

In that world, you start to view humans as kind of valueless or like parasites or Sam Altman saying, well, it takes a lot of energy and resources to grow a human.

There's a very dangerous thing here that I think we don't want to lean into.

This is part of the anti-human future.

This is part of the intelligence curse.

This is part of Mark Zuckerberg saying, we need to replace your human relationships with AI relationships.

I don't know if you've seen this quote.

There's a clip of him online.

You can find it.

Where he's talking about the average person has only like two or three close relationships.

Like people are so lonely.

He's like, oh, but then we thought that there was a real solution to this.

We could give people, you know, 11 AI friends and different friends and that this will quote solve loneliness.

A problem that he created, by the way, that social media writ large by maximizing engagement, which means maximizing how many hours you spend by yourself on a screen, not talking to people, which means being inside on a Tuesday night, not texting your friends to be out, which means basically maximizing loneliness.

Loneliness is a direct consequence with the maximize engagement economy.

Facebook and Instagram and all of that have massively fed into the trend of loneliness.

And then he's saying, we need to solve that with more technology.

So this is like a, this is like a company that's generating cancer on one side of the balance sheet and then selling you solutions to cancer on the other side of the balance sheet.