Tristan Harris

But by facing the difficult reality that most people don't want to face.

Yeah.

And the other thing that's happening in AI that you're saying that lacks the nuance is that people point to all the things.

It's simultaneously more brilliant than humans.

Yeah.

embarrassingly stupid in terms of the mistakes that it makes.

A friend like Gary Marcus would say, here's a hundred ways in which GPT-5, like the latest AI model, makes embarrassing mistakes.

If you ask it how many strawberries contain the word R in it, it'll confuse, it gets confused about what the answer is.

Or it'll put more fingers on the hands than are in the deep fake photo or something like that.

And I think that one thing that we have to do, what Helen Toner, who is a board member of OpenAI, calls AI jaggedness, that we have simultaneously AIs that are beating and getting gold on the International Math Olympiad, that are solving new physics, that are beating programming competitions and are better than the top 200 programmers in the whole world, or in the top 200 programmers in the whole world, that are beating cyber hacking competitions.

It's both supremely outperforming humans

And embarrassingly failing in places where humans would never fail.

So how does our mind integrate those two pictures?

Have you ever met Sam Altman?

I think that these people on some level all care about humanity.

Underneath, there is a care for humanity.

I think that this situation, this particular technology, it justifies humanity.

lacking empathy for what would happen to everyone because I have this other side of the equation that demands infinitely more importance, right?

Like, if I didn't do it, then someone else is going to build the thing that ends civilization.

So it's like, do you see what I'm saying?