Tristan Harris

How long have we got?

No one knows because AI is literally moving so quickly.

If I went on Twitter, Elon joked in a conversation I saw yesterday, you know, it used to be that you'd go on Twitter and once every six months, this is several years ago, you would see a huge AI breakthrough.

Like that would just really change the game.

Now there's one, you know, that you see when you go to bed and there's a new one when you wake up in the morning and you're on Twitter and you see it.

And the pace is pretty overwhelming.

So I think rather than ask, how much time do we have, which is kind of like just trying to assuage the fear that I think a lot of people feel, the kind of bold, brave human thing to do is to ask if things were to go well.

What would that mean about how we were showing up?

And then to get as many people as possible showing up from that place, because that gets us the best decentralized conditions to get to the better outcome.

They say in mathematics that in chaos, initial conditions matter.

So I'm not guaranteeing in any way, shape or form that we're going to get to the better future.

But I would like to invite people again into stepping into and standing from the most wise and mature version of ourselves that would behave as if we were going to get to that better future, because that would give us the best chances of doing so.

And the alternative is just surrender.

The alternative is schisming, deniling, depression, overwhelm.

The integrity and the kind of flow of energy that I think you'll feel inside yourself if you align with what is actually needed in this moment.

There's more meaningfulness.

There's more preciousness of life.

There's so much meaning and purpose if you're aligned with what would have things go well.

Yeah.

And I think there's this weird thing that's happening is if you don't see a way for things to go well, and then you believe the only thing you can do is like triple down on racing as fast as possible, knowing where that's currently taking us, that has a biophysical cost on your system.