Tristan Harris

We want to avoid dystopia, which means the power that you're handing out into society is held either by oversighted, more centralized actors, or bound with more responsibility by decentralized actors.

So power in general being matched with responsibility.

We've done this with airplanes, right?

Chaos would be you hand everybody an airplane with no requirement for pilot's training or pilot's licenses, and the world would naturally look like plane crashes.

And

The other way is you have an FAA and a world where only elites get to use airplanes and they get many advantages over everybody else.

And we walked the narrow path with airplanes.

AI is a lot harder.

It's a decentralized technology.

But I think we need more principles in how we navigate it.

And that's what the TED Talk was about.

Yeah.

So in a way, we kind of get both parts of the problem with social media.

So chaos is everybody gets maximum virality on their content.

So we're unleashing the power of infinite reach.

Like you post something and it goes out to a million people instantly.

And you don't have that power matched with credibility, responsibility, or fact-checking.

So you end up with this sort of misinformation phenomenon.

Information collapse is like the chaos attractor for social media.

Sounds bad.