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Tristan Harris

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TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

But because that power is not bound with responsibility, there's no one preventing people from using that power in dangerous ways.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

It's also increasing the risk of cyber hacking, flooding our environment, deep fakes, fraud, scams, dangerous things with biology.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

Whatever the models can do, there's no thing stopping people from using it that way.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

And so the end game of that is what we call chaos.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

And that's one of the probable places that this can go.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

In response to that, this other community in AI says that we should do this safely.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

We should lock this up, have regulated AI control, just have a few trusted players.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

And the benefit of that is that it's like a biosafety level four lab.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

Like this is a dangerous activity.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

We should do this in a safe lockdown way.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

But because AI confers all this power, the million geniuses in a data center, and you just make crazy amounts of money with that, that'll create the risk of just unprecedented concentrations of wealth and power.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

So who would you trust to be a million times more wealthy or powerful than anybody else, like any government or any CEO or any president?

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

So that's a different, difficult outcome.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

Yes, exactly.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

Yes, yes.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

So understandably, people are not comfortable with the outcome, and that's what we call the dystopia attractor.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

It's a second different way to fail.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

So there's chaos and dystopia.

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

But the good news is, because rather than there being this dysfunctional debate where some people say accelerate is the answer, other people say safety is the answer, well, we actually need to walk the narrow path where...

TED Talks Daily
Beyond the Talk: Tristan Harris in conversation with TED Talks Daily

We want to avoid chaos.