Tristan Harris

One last thing.

When Elon Musk says that the Optimus Prime robot is a $1 trillion market opportunity alone, what he means is I am going to own the global labor economy, meaning that people won't have labor jobs.

But they're not that far away, though.

Well, I think people also say, okay, but, you know, 200 years ago, 150 years ago, everybody was a farmer.

And now only 2% of people are farmers.

Humans always find something new to do.

You know, we had the elevator man and now we have automated elevators.

We had bank tellers.

Now we have automated teller machines.

So humans will always just find something else to do.

But why is AI different than that?

Because it's intelligence.

Because it's general intelligence that means that rather than a technology that automates just bank tellers, this is automating all forms of human cognitive labor, meaning everything that a human mind can do.

So who's going to retrain faster?

You moving to that other kind of cognitive labor?

Or the AI that is trained on everything and can multiply itself by 100 million times and it retraining how to do that other kind of labor?

I think everywhere where people value human connection and a human relationship, those jobs will stay because what we value in that work is the human relationship, not the performance of the work.

But that's not to justify that we should just race as fast as possible to disrupt a billion jobs without a transition plan where no one – how are you going to put food on the table for your family?

What AI represents is the zenithification of that competitive logic.

The logic of, if I don't do it, I'll lose to the other guy that will.