Tristan Harris

Code is language.

Biology is language.

And you have generative AI that is able to

generate new language, generate new law, generate new media, generate new essays, generate new biology, new proteins.

And you have AI that can see language and see patterns and hack loopholes in that language.

GPT-5, go find me a loophole in this legal system in this country so I can do something with the tax code.

GPT-5, go find a vulnerability in this virus so you can create a new kind of biological dangerous thing.

GPT-5, go look at everything Scott Galloway has ever written and point out the vested interests of everything that would discredit him.

So we have a crazy AI system that this particular generation AI speaks language.

But where this is heading to, we call them the next one is third contact, which is artificial general intelligence.

And that's what all these companies are racing to build.

So whether we or you and I believe it or not, just recognize that the trillions of dollars of resources that are going into this are under the idea that we can build generalized intelligence.

Now, why is generalized intelligence distinct from other social media and AI that we just talked about?

Well, if you think about it, AI dwarfs the power of all other technology combined because intelligence is what gave us all technology.

So think of all scientific development, scientists sitting around lab benches, coming up with ideas, doing research experiments, iterating, getting the results of those experiments.

A simple way to say it that I said in a recent TED talk is if you made an advance in, say, rocketry, like the science and engineering of rocketry, that didn't advance biology or medicine.

And if you made an advance in biology or medicine, that didn't advance rocketry.

But when you make an advance in generalized intelligence, something that can think and reason about science and pose new experiments and hypothesize and write code and run the lab experiment and then get the results and then write a new experiment, intelligence is the foundation of all science and technology development.

So intelligence will explode automatically.

all of these different domains.