Tristan Harris
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How do we make education better?
How do we embed DeepSeek in the WeChat app?
How do we make robotics better and pump GDP?
So what China's doing with BYD and making the cheapest electric cars and out-competing everybody else, that's narrowly applying AI to just pump manufacturing output.
And if we realize that instead of competing to build a super intelligent, uncontrollable god in a box that we don't know how to control in the box,
And we instead raced to create narrow AIs that were actually about making stronger educational outcomes, stronger agriculture output, stronger manufacturing output.
We could live in a sustainable world, which, by the way, wouldn't replace all the jobs faster than we know how to retrain people.
Because when we race to AGI, you're racing to displace millions of workers.
And we talk about UBI, but are we going to have a global fund for every single person of the 8 billion people on planet Earth in all countries to pay for their lifestyle after that wealth gets concentrated?
When has a small group of people concentrated all the wealth in the economy and ever consciously redistributed it to everybody else?
When has that happened in history?
Not that I'm aware of.
One last thing.
When Elon Musk says that the Optimus Prime robot is a $1 trillion market opportunity alone, what he means is I am going to own the global labor economy, meaning that people won't have labor jobs.
But they're not that far away, though.
Well, I think people also say, okay, but, you know, 200 years ago, 150 years ago, everybody was a farmer.
And now only 2% of people are farmers.
Humans always find something new to do.
You know, we had the elevator man and now we have automated elevators.
We had bank tellers.