Tristan Harris

By 2030, they'll be able to do a month-long task.

So that's like the task that you would hand to someone that would take them a whole month to do.

And by 2030, we'll have an AI that you hand it to them and they'll do all that much faster.

I think that with AI, we have a crisis.

It's kind of an adaptation crisis.

It's a crisis of time.

It's too much change over a small period of time.

The law always lags behind the speed of technology.

That's always true.

This will require an unprecedented level of clarity and how we want to respond to it.

What I was trying to do in the TED Talk was just to lay out enough clarity.

And there's a point where I just say, this is insane.

If you're in China, if you're in France and you're building Mistral, if you're a mother...

of a family in Saudi Arabia who's invested in AI.

It doesn't matter who you are.

If you are really facing the facts of the situation, it's not a good outcome for anybody.

And the weird hope that I have is that if we can clarify the situation so much that people can feel and see what's at stake, something else might be able to happen.

I'm really inspired by the film The Day After.

Do you know The Day After?

It was a film from 1982 about what would happen if the U.S.