Tristan Harris

These are important.

Yeah.

Which is what you're really getting to here is what Carl Sagan was referring to when he talked about our technological adolescence.

The conversation we're having isn't really about AI.

It's about what happens when we have increasingly powerful, dangerous, and destructive technology.

Because as humanity progresses, whether AI existed or not, we're going to get more and more powerful technology.

that would cover more and more dangerous and destructive things that you could do with it.

Like we didn't have the ability to do CRISPR and bioweapons, you know, 20 years ago.

Now we do have that ability and we're going to get more and more dangerous and destructive things.

And so the real question that AI is forcing us to ask is what is the wisdom needed to wield the technological powers that whether AI is part of it or not, that we're going to increasingly gain.

And, you know, I reference this all the time, but it's just such an accurate fundamental problem statement by E.O.

Wilson.

that the fundamental problem of humanity is we have paleolithic brains that don't update very well to new information and think things are sci-fi and go into denial and overwhelm and blah, blah, blah.

We have medieval institutions from the 18th century, and we have godlike technology that makes the 24th century technology crash down on 21st century society.

That's what AI is.

It's a joke from Ajaya Khotra, who's in the film, by the way.

And so if we're to solve this equation, this problem statement that E.L.

Wilson lays out, the way I always think about it is we need to embrace the reality of our Paleolithic brains.

That's what wisdom is.

We know that we get overwhelmed and we go into denial, so we work with that.