Tristan Harris

Because we can't let it happen.

Like, it's like, I'm not naive to how impossible this is.

And that doesn't mean we have to do everything to make it not happen.

And I do believe that this is not destined or in the laws of physics that everything has to just keep going on the default reckless path.

That was totally possible with social media to do something else.

I gave an outline for how that could be possible.

It's totally possible to do something else with AI now.

And if we were clear and if everyone did everything and pulled in that direction, it would be possible to choose a different future.

Yeah.

But here we are knowing that we are self-aware, all of us sitting here, all these like human social primates, we're watching the situation.

And we kind of all feel the same thing, which is like, oh, it's probably not going to be until there's a catastrophe.

And then we'll try to do something else.

But by then, it's probably going to be too late.

And sometimes, you know, you can say, we can wait, we cannot do anything.

And we can just race to sort of super intelligent gods we don't know how to control.

And where at that point, our only options for response, if we lose control to something crazy like that, our only option is going to be shutting down the entire internet or turning off the electricity grid.

And so relative to that...

We could do that crazy set of actions then, or we could take much more reasonable actions right now.

Assuming superintelligence doesn't just turn it back on.

Which is why we have to do it before.