Tristan Harris

Every country is going to have nuclear weapons, and this is just going to be a nuclear war.

And so far, because a lot of people worked really hard on solutions that they didn't see at the beginning.

We didn't know there was going to be seismic monitoring and satellites and ways of flying over each other's nuclear silos and the Open Skies Treaty.

We didn't know we'd be able to create all that.

And so the first step is stepping outside the logic of inevitability.

This outcome is not inevitable.

We get to choose.

And there is no definition of wisdom that does not involve some form of restraint.

Even the CEO of Microsoft AI said that in the future, progress will depend more on what we say no to than what we say yes to.

The CEO of Microsoft AI said that.

And so I believe that there are times when we have coordinated on existential technologies before.

We didn't build cobalt bombs.

We didn't build blinding laser weapons.

If you think about it, countries should be in an arms race to build blinding laser weapons.

But we thought that was inhumane.

So we did a protocol against blinding laser weapons.

When mistakes can be deemed existential, we can collaborate on doing something else.

But it starts with that understanding.

My biggest fear is that people are like, yeah, that sounds nice, but it's not going to happen.

And I just don't want that to happen.