Tristan Harris
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There's so many things that people are already doing that is part of this.
We just haven't had a name for... We're fighting back for reclaiming and protecting what's really human.
Because, again, our political voice is about to not matter.
Once all the jobs get automated by AI...
And governments and companies don't have to listen to the people because we're not the ones that are generating the revenue.
You could have a union before when the factories need the human labor and then the human labor can get together and express its common voice.
We want this instead of that.
We want to be paid like this.
We don't want these working standards.
What happens when the companies and the countries don't need you anymore?
This is literally the last time that our political voice will matter.
And this is the time to express that voice in many different ways.
You can boycott unsafe AI companies or AI companies that enable mass surveillance.
What did we just see with the thing that went down with the Pentagon and Anthropic last week is that subscriptions for ChatGPT went down like tons and subscriptions for Anthropic went up by a lot.
If it wasn't just individuals that were doing that, but entire Fortune 500 companies that were doing that, given the amount of debt that these companies have taken on, the companies will have to respond to that market signal.
So mass boycotts can have a huge effect on steering which AI future we get.
Are we going to get mass surveillance?
Are we going to get a world where AI companies are incentivized to do the right things?
Absolutely.
What you're saying is super important, and this is not me saying everyone should just put their money into Anthropic and then the world will be fine.