Tristan Harris

It's leaving secret messages for itself.

There's examples of that too.

It's called steganographic encoding.

It can leave a message that it can later sort of decode what it might meant in a way that humans could never see.

We have examples of all of this behavior.

And once you show people that, what they say is, okay, well, why don't we stop or slow down?

And then what happens, another thought will creep in right after, which is, oh, but if we stop or slow down, then China will still build it.

But I want to slow that down for a second.

We all just said we should slow down or stop because the thing that we're building, the it, is this uncontrollable AI.

And then the concern that China will build it, you just did a swap and believe that they're going to build controllable AI.

But we just established that all the AIs that we're currently building are currently uncontrollable.

So there's this weird contradiction our mind is living in.

When we say they're going to keep building it, the it that they would keep building is the same uncontrollable AI that we would build.

So I don't see a way out of this without there being some kind of agreement or negotiation between the leading powers and countries to –

Pause, slow down, set red lines for getting to a controllable AI.

And by the way, the Chinese Communist Party, what do they care about more than anything else in the world?

Surviving.

Surviving and control.

Control as a means to survive.

So they don't want uncontrollable AI any more than we would.