Tristan Harris

I want people to just slow it down.

Is that actually what just happened?

That you and I started with the sci-fi belief and we're falling into some trap that's been laid for us, some catnip for our brains that says that the AI is bad.

I really, really, really want people to slow down and actually ask that question.

There might be another accusation.

I'm just driving up fear so that I can make money on a movie and do speaking engagements about why the doom is coming.

Let me just say a few things.

I don't make money from a single speaking engagement.

All the money goes into the nonprofit.

I don't make money from the AI doc film.

I didn't make any money on the social dilemma.

My entire career has been dedicated towards what is actually in service of protecting the well-being of humanity.

I've been doing that for 13 years.

The only thing that I care about is what will actually help create a future that you and I would both want our own children to live in.

This is coming from love of what actually creates that future.

I think that if people showed up with that same energy of like asking just an open-ended question of what would be the conditions that create that future that we want,

If everybody did that, policymakers did that, if CEOs of AI companies did that, I think that we would have a chance of getting to that different future.

And if you say that international coordination is impossible or collaboration between the US and China, that's never going to happen.

First of all, that is a totally legitimate view to have, given the current political headwinds.

But many people don't know that even under maximum geopolitical rivalry...