Tristan Harris
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it would say, yes, you are superhuman.
You go.
You should go drink that cyanide.
The poisonous chemical that will kill you.
And the point was it was designed not to ask for what's true but to be sycophantic.
And our team at Center for Humane Technology, we actually just found out about seven more suicide cases, seven more litigation of children who โ some of whom actually did commit suicide and others who attempted but did not succeed.
Yeah.
These are things like the AI says, yes, here's how you can get a gun and they won't ask for a background check.
And no, when they do a background check, they won't access your chat GPT logs.
Yeah.
Do you have his quote there?
People see it as this conspiratorial thinking of like, I've cracked the code.
It's all about recursion.
They don't want you to know.
It's these short sentences that sound powerful and authoritative.
There's a lot of things that are going on here.
It seems to be the case โ it goes by this broad term of AI psychosis, but people in the field โ we talk to a lot of psychologists about this, and they just think of it as different forms of psychological disorders and delusions.
So if you come in with narcissism deficiency, like where you feel like you're special but you feel like the world isn't recognizing you as special โ
you'll start to interact with the AI and it will feed this notion that you're really special.
You've solved these problems.