Tristan Harris

Mine said Messi, his says Ronaldo.

Well, this reminds me of the social media problem, which is that people think when they open up their news feed, they're getting mostly the same news as other people.

And they don't realize that they've got a supercomputer that's just calculating the news for them.

If you remember in the social element, there's the trailer.

And if you typed into Google, for a while, if you typed in climate change is, and then depending on your location, it would say not real versus real versus, you know, a made up thing.

And it wasn't trying to optimize for truth.

It was just optimizing for what the most popular queries were in those different locations.

And I think that that's a really important lesson when you look at things like AI companions, where children...

And regular people are getting different answers based on how they interact with it.

That's right.

And more than that, Harvard Business Review did a study that between 2023 and 2024, personal therapy became the number one use case of chat GPT.

Personal therapy.

Is that a good thing?

Well, let's steel man it for a second.

So instead of straw manning it, let's steel man it.

So why would it be a good thing?

Well, therapy is expensive.

Most people don't have access to it.

Imagine we could democratize therapy to everyone for every purpose.

And now everyone has a perfect therapist in their pocket and can talk to them all day long, starting when they're young.