Tristan Harris

You don't invest in education.

You don't invest in healthcare because oil is where you get your GDP and your growth from.

Okay.

Okay.

This is a well-known fact in economics.

It's called the resource curse.

Okay.

There's a wonderful guy named Luke Drago who wrote a piece called The Intelligence Curse.

We are about to enter a world where GDP for countries comes more from data centers and intelligence and AI than is going to come from the labor of human beings.

So everyone's talking about how AI is going to automate all these jobs and then we'll all just like sit back with universal basic income and become painters and poets.

And is that actually what's going to happen?

Or when countries get almost all of their revenue from AI and a smaller and smaller percentage from people, do they have an incentive to invest in AI?

childcare, healthcare, education, the wellbeing of their people?

Or is it basically just hook them up to the social media addiction economy, keep them busy while basically all the revenue comes from AI companies?

And so what I'm trying to get at is this is not a human future.

This is not a future that's in service of regular people.

This is a future that's in service of eight soon-to-be trillionaires who will consolidate all the wealth and disempower basically everybody else.

Well, we have this joke that most people's occupation in the future we're headed towards with AI is to become a coffin builder.

So in other words, your job is to create the thing that replaces you and obsoletes you.

So you are essentially building the coffin for your future obsolescence.