Tristan Harris

Governments have an incentive to increasingly use AI to surveil and control the population.

If we don't want that to be the case, that pressure has to be exerted now before that happens.

And I think of it as when you increase power, you have to also increase counter rights to defend against that power.

So for example, we didn't need the right to be forgotten until technology had the power to remember us forever.

We don't need the right to our likeness until AI can just suck your likeness with three seconds of your voice or look at all your photos online and make an avatar of you.

We don't need the right to our cognitive liberty until AI can manipulate our deep cognition because it knows us so well.

So anytime you increase power, you have to increase the oppositional forces of the rights and protections that we have.

That's one of the other aspects of this ego-religious, godlike, that it's not even a bad thing.

The quote I read you at the beginning of the biological life replaced by digital life says,

they actually think that we shouldn't feel bad.

Richard Sutton, a famous Turing Award-winning AI scientist who invented, I think, reinforcement learning, says that we shouldn't fear the succession of our species into this digital species.

And that whether this all goes away is not actually of concern to us because we will have birthed something that is more intelligent than us.

And according to that logic,

We don't value things that are less intelligent.

We don't protect the animals.

So why would we protect humans if we have something that is now more powerful, more intelligent?

Intelligence equals betterness.

But hopefully that should ring some alarm bells in people that that doesn't feel like a good outcome.

So what do I do today?

Yeah.