Tristan Harris
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Yeah, yeah.
And so if you're short-term, yes, we need the electricians and the plumbers and we're building data centers.
Short-term, yes, you can be a programmer and get the benefit from vibe coding.
But then the AIs are learning on all the things that you're doing.
And it's taking all the training data of what you're doing with AI and it's using that to train an AI that can take your job.
So everybody using AI now to help them is also training the future AIs that will completely replace them.
And again, the explicit goal, this is not my opinion.
This is literally the mission statement of all of the AI companies because the multi-trillion dollar prize at the end of the rainbow...
of owning the entire world economy is based on building this full replacement economy because that's what will achieve the greatest growth.
And that's why these companies- Replacement economy?
Yeah, meaning that they're designing to replace all human labor.
They're not designing to augment and support and like enhance human labor.
They're designing to replace all human labor because that's what justifies the amount of money that they've taken on in debt that they can grow into this like total ownership of the entire economy.
Well, it's just important for people to get that when the AIs are doing all the new scientific research, not humans, you have an automated chemistry lab, you have an automated biology lab, you have an automated surgery.
When AI is doing all of that, again, the revenue is going to come from AI, not from people.
And what that means is all the wealth will go to a handful of like five AI companies.
And then how are you going to be able to make a living?
Yeah.
When in history has a small group of people ever consolidated all the wealth and consciously redistributed it to everyone else?
And if you think that might happen in the US, we'll do a universal basic income, just think about the entire world.