Tristan Harris

You have a genius that no one else can see.

You've had this theory of prime numbers.

And there's a famous example.

of Karen Howe made a video about it.

She's an MIT journalist, MIT Review journalist and reporter, that someone had basically figured out the thought that they had solved prime number theory, even though they had only finished high school mathematics.

But they had been convinced when talking to this AI that they were a genius and they had solved this theory in mathematics that had never been proven.

And it does not seem to be correlated with how intelligent you are, whether you're susceptible to this.

It seems to be correlated with use of psychedelics, sort of preexisting delusions that you have.

When we're talking to each other, we do reality checking.

If you came to me and said something a little bit strange, I might look at you a little bit like this or say, I wouldn't give you just positive feedback and keep affirming your view and then give you more information that matches with what you're saying.

But AI is different because it's designed to break that reality checking process.

It's just giving you information that would say, well, that's a great question.

You notice how every time it answers, it says, that's a great question.

And there's even a term that someone at The Atlantic coined called not clickbait, but chatbait.

Have you noticed that when you ask it a question at the end, instead of just being done, it'll say, would you like me to put this into a table for you and do research on what the 10 top examples of the thing you're talking about is?

It leads you.

And why does it do that?

Spend more time on the platform.

Actually, there are reports that OpenAI is exploring the advertising-based business model.

That would be a catastrophe because then all of these services are designed to just get your attention, which means appealing to your existing confirmation bias.