Tristan Harris

And there's a different conversation happening publicly than the one that the AI companies are having privately about which world we're heading to, which is a future that people don't want.

But we didn't consent to have six people make that decision on behalf of 8 billion people.

Tristan Harris is one of the world's most influential technology ethicists.

And now he's warning us about the catastrophic consequences AI will have on all of us.

Let me, like, collect myself for a second.

We can't let it happen.

But as we're racing, we're landing in a world of unvetted therapists, rising energy prices, and major security risks.

I mean, we have evidence where if an AI model reading a company's email finds out it's about to get replaced with another AI model, and then it also reads in the company email that one executive is having an affair with an employee, the AI will independently blackmail that executive in order to keep itself alive.

That's crazy.

But what do you think?

So I did a program at Stanford called the Mayfield Fellows Program that took engineering students and then taught them entrepreneurship.

You know, I, as a computer scientist, didn't know anything about entrepreneurship, but they pair you up with venture capitalists.

They give you mentorship.

And, you know, there's a lot of powerful alumni who were part of that program.

The co-founder of Asana, the co-founders of...

of Instagram were both part of that program.

And that put us in kind of a cohort of people who

were basically ending up at the center of what was going to colonize the whole world's psychological environment, which was the social media situation.

And as part of that, I started my own tech company called Apture.

And we basically made this tiny widget that would help people find more contextual information without leaving the website they were on.