Tristan Harris

In a way, this is the last moment that human political power will matter.

It's sort of a use-it-or-lose-it moment because if we wait to the point where in the past in the Industrial Revolution –

They start automating a bunch of the work, and people have to do these jobs that people don't want to do in the factory, and there's bad working conditions.

They can unionize and say, hey, we don't want to work under those conditions.

And their voice mattered because the factories needed the workers.

In this case, does the state need the humans anymore?

Their GDP is coming in almost entirely from the AI companies.

So suddenly this political class, this political power base –

They become the useless class, to borrow a term from Yuval Harari, the author of Sapiens.

In fact, he has a different frame, which is that AI is like a new version of digital.

It's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants, of alien digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize-level capability, work at superhuman speed, will work for less than minimum wage.

We're all worried about immigration of the other countries next door taking labor jobs.

What happens when AI immigrants come in and take all of the cognitive labor?

If you're worried about immigration, you should be way more worried about AI.

It dwarfs it.

You can think of it like this.

I mean, if you think about – we were sold a bill of goods in the 1990s with NAFTA.

We said, hey, we're going to – NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, we're going to outsource all of our manufacturing to these developing countries, China, Southeast Asia, and we're going to get this abundance.

We're going to get all these cheap goods.

It will create this world of abundance where all of us will be better off.