Tristan Harris

I think it's going to come to that.

I think because people need to feel it is existential before it actually is existential.

And if people feel it is existential, they will be willing to risk things and show up for what needs to happen regardless of what that consequence is.

Because the other side of where we're going is a world that you won't have power and you won't want.

So better to use your voice now maximally to make something else happen.

Only vote for politicians who will make this a tier one issue.

Advocate for some kind of negotiated agreement between the major powers on AI that use rule of law to help govern the uncontrollability of this technology so we don't wipe ourselves out.

Advocate for laws that have safety guardrails for AI companions.

We don't want AI companions that manipulate kids into suicide.

We can have mandatory testing and transparency measures so that everybody knows what everyone else is doing and the public knows and the governments know so that we can actually coordinate on a better outcome.

And to make all that happen is going to take a massive public movement.

And the first thing you can do is to share this video with the 10 most powerful people you know and have them share it with the 10 most powerful people that they know.

Because I really do think that if everybody knows that everybody else knows, then we would choose something different.

And I know that at an individual level, there you are in a mammal hearing this, and it's like you just don't feel how that's going to change.

And it will always feel that way as an individual.

It will always feel impossible until the big change happens, before the civil rights movement happened.

Did it feel like that was easy and that was going to happen?

It always feels impossible before the big changes happen.

And that when it does happen, it's because thousands of people worked very hard ongoingly every day to make that unlikely change happen.

Let me, I think there's a couple of things.