Tristan Harris

I'm not going to say that's possible because the asteroid, by the way, as it gets closer and closer, gives you new cancer drugs and new physics and new math and is intellectually exciting and feels like it gives you a God complex.

And it's a whole bunch of weird, perverse incentives.

But in a world like is it outside the laws of physics?

If everybody on planet Earth woke up and said, I don't really want that asteroid to come.

If everybody took their hands off the keyboards, I'm just saying, I'm not saying it's going to happen.

I'm just saying in principle, the asteroid disappears.

So this moment is, it's really strange.

And I think it requires, it's not just what we need to do, but it's like who we need to be, which is that you can't, you may not necessarily see the full path to get there.

But if you pretend that that path doesn't exist and you just say it's all inevitable and you become complicit in accelerating the asteroid's trajectory, like you're never going to find the other path if you subconsciously believe that all this is inevitable.

The only way is to orient as if there is another path and be the kind of person who is genuinely seeking it in good faith with every bone in your body.

And, you know, I and a community of so many people, thousands of people who work on AI and really want this to go well, I think are working from that place every day.

And part of this is inviting the rest of the world into seeking that alternative path that we can steer if we were all genuinely and sincerely committed to wanting to find another path.

NGOs that... Well, on the whistleblower side specifically, I'm not sure, but there have been, I mean, there was a very famous alignment researcher, safety researcher at Anthropic.

You probably saw the thing go by.

It was like two months ago.

His name is Mirnank, I think, Sharma.

And his resignation letter he published publicly about why we weren't on track for this.

And

people should really take heed.

Like, it's kind of only going in one direction.