Tristan Harris

So we could hit a button, and it's already true, by the way, just for listeners, Paul Erdős, who was a mathematician in the 1940s, he laid out these math problems in the 70s that had never been solved.

And just recently, in the last few months, AI has actually made progress and solved those math problems.

It's now winning gold in the International Math Olympiad.

It is generating new physics.

So you could actually, just to put listeners through this,

Using the raw rules of physics that we know, you could re-derive everything up to quantum physics with just an AI doing that.

That's mind-blowing.

So you're endorsing that AI could do that, but you're making the distinction that in biology, you have these emergent effects.

It's the complex adaptive nature of biology that's different from other industries.

systems that makes it so hard to model.

And then you gave a quote in there of how much computation it would take to simulate.

You said it was what, one week or one minute of the human body would take more than the GPUs on planet Earth and more than the time in the universe?

Correct, yes.

That's crazy.

Okay, let's take the example of COVID.

So, you know, we had this COVID vaccine.

Basically, there was a Operation Warp Speed to figure out how could we take something that was a new disease, a new virus, and we did develop something with super fast deployment.

And I think ASI has thought of it to be Operation Warp Speed for everything.

Like in nine months, we could have cures for everything because that's what this magic genie in a box is going to do.

Could you distinguish why was that possible with COVID that's not possible with cancer?