Tristan Harris

AI is even harder because AI pumps not just economic growth, but scientific, technological, and military advantages.

And so it will be the hardest coordination challenge that we will ever face.

But if we don't face it, if we don't make some kind of choice, it will end in tragedy.

We're not in a race just to have technological advantage.

We're in a race for who can better govern that technology's impact on society.

So, for example, the United States beat China to social media.

That technology.

Did that make us stronger?

Did that make us weaker?

We have the most anxious and depressed generation of our lifetime.

We have the least informed and most polarized generation.

We have the worst critical thinking.

We have the worst ability to concentrate and do things.

And that's because we did not govern the impact of that technology well.

And the country that actually figures out how to govern it well

is the country that actually wins in a kind of comprehensive sense.

Well, or you don't.

We could, instead of building these super intelligent gods in a box, right now China, as I understand it, from Eric Schmidt and Selena Xu in the New York Times wrote a piece about how China is actually taking a very different approach to AI.

And they're focused on narrow, practical applications of AI.

So how do we just increase government services?