Tristan Harris

We have the worst ability to concentrate and do things.

And that's because we did not govern the impact of that technology well.

And the country that actually figures out how to govern it well

is the country that actually wins in a kind of comprehensive sense.

Well, or you don't.

We could, instead of building these super intelligent gods in a box, right now China, as I understand it, from Eric Schmidt and Selena Xu in the New York Times wrote a piece about how China is actually taking a very different approach to AI.

And they're focused on narrow, practical applications of AI.

So how do we just increase government services?

How do we make education better?

How do we embed DeepSeek in the WeChat app?

How do we make robotics better and pump GDP?

So what China's doing with BYD and making the cheapest electric cars and out-competing everybody else, that's narrowly applying AI to just pump manufacturing output.

And if we realize that instead of competing to build a super intelligent, uncontrollable god in a box that we don't know how to control in the box,

And we instead raced to create narrow AIs that were actually about making stronger educational outcomes, stronger agriculture output, stronger manufacturing output.

We could live in a sustainable world, which, by the way, wouldn't replace all the jobs faster than we know how to retrain people.

Because when we race to AGI, you're racing to displace millions of workers.

And we talk about UBI, but are we going to have a global fund for every single person of the 8 billion people on planet Earth in all countries to pay for their lifestyle after that wealth gets concentrated?

When has a small group of people concentrated all the wealth in the economy and ever consciously redistributed it to everybody else?

When has that happened in history?

Not that I'm aware of.