Tristan Harris

Which is why there's a belief that if I get there first and can automate generalized intelligence...

I can own the world economy because suddenly everything that a human can do that they would be paid to do in a job, the AI can do that better.

And so if I'm a company, do I want to pay the human who has health care, might whistleblow, complains, has to sleep, has sick days, has family issues?

Or do I want to pay the AI that will work 24-7 at superhuman speed, doesn't complain, doesn't whistleblow, doesn't have to be paid for health care?

there's the incentive for everyone to move to paying for AIs rather than paying humans.

And so AGI, artificial general intelligence, is more transformative than any other kind of technology that we've ever had.

And it's distinct.

It's not clear how long it will take.

And I'm not saying that because I believe necessarily the current paradigm that we're building on will take us there.

But, you know, I'm based in San Francisco.

I talk to people at the AI labs.

Half these people are friends of mine, you know, people at the very top level.

And, you know, most people in the industry believe that they'll get there between the next two and ten years at the latest.

And I think some people might say, oh, well, it may not happen for a while.

Phew, I can sit back and we don't have to worry about it.

And it's like we're heading for so much transformative change faster than our society is currently prepared to deal with it.

And the reason I was excited to talk to you today is because I think that people are currently confused about AI.

You know, people say it's going to solve everything, cure cancer, solve climate change.

And there's people say it's going to kill everything.

It's going to be doom.