Tristan Harris

Again, that's a new vulnerability that society has now opened up because of AI.

So that's the thing that people really need to get is that these companies are not racing to provide a chatbot to users.

That's not what their goal is.

If you look at the mission statement on OpenAI's website or all the websites, their mission is to be able to replace all forms of human economic labor in the economy, meaning an AI that can do all the cognitive labor, meaning labor of the mind,

So that can be marketing, that can be text, that can be illustration, that can be video production, that can be code production.

Everything that a person can do with their brain, these companies are racing to build that.

That is artificial general intelligence.

General meaning all kinds of cognitive tasks.

Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google DeepMind, used to say, first solve intelligence and then use that to solve everything else.

It's important to say, why is AI distinct from all other kinds of technologies?

It's because if I make an advance in one field like rocketry, let's say I uncover some secret in rocketry, that doesn't advance biomedicine knowledge or doesn't advance energy production or doesn't advance coding.

Right?

But if I can advance generalized intelligence, think about all science and technology development over the course of all human history.

So science and technology is all done by humans thinking and working out problems, working out problems in any domain.

So if I automate intelligence, I'm suddenly going to get an explosion of all scientific and technological development happening.

Everywhere.

Does that make sense?

Of course, yeah.

It's foundational to everything.

Exactly.