Tristan Harris

We have systems and practices to recognize when that's about to happen and ask, what do we need to hold a difficult reality together?

That's embracing our paleolithic brains.

We need to upgrade our medieval institutions.

We should be using 21st century technology to make faster updating, self-improving governance.

Instead of creating recursively self-improving AI, we should be creating self-improving governance.

Audrey Tang, the former digital minister of Taiwan, has pioneered what that would look like.

That democracies could be using tech to find the unlikely consensus opinions of everybody.

One of the things that's going to exist in the next few months is a national dialogue on AI facilitated by technology where people can add their own ideas about how AI should be governed.

And when you vote and you click, it's going to reveal the most popular consensus opinions about what should happen about these different issues.

It's one thing if we live in a world where there's a cacophony and confusion about AI.

And it's another thing if we live in a world where you see on a clear webpage that 600,000 people have voted and 96% of people across all these countries agree that there should be international limits.

Exactly, exactly.

We're trying to make transparent common knowledge.

And one of the ways you think about it is the movement has to see itself.

There is a movement for humane technology.

There is a movement for a human future.

It just hasn't had a way to experience itself yet.

And when you see graffiti on a New York subway ad for an AI product people don't need, people saying, I don't want this, or AI is not inevitable, that's the human movement.

When you see kids gather in Central Park for the Lamplight Club and delete social media off their phones together, that's a club that's in New York.

That's the human movement.