#469 — Escaping an Anti-Human Future

Have you had any oil newity other than then to the only new that every day? I'm here with Tristan Harris. Tristan, it's great to see you again. Great to be back with you. So you've been busy.

Um, you've been busy worrying about social media for years and uh you you created this, uh, in part created this documentary, The Social Dilemma, which it seems half of humanity saw. Yeah. We still have a problem with social media, I I'll point out, but um, you, uh, as much as anyone alerted us to the nature of the problem and are continuing on that front. But now you have added to your portfolio uh concerns about AI and there's this new documentary, the AI doc, uh, which I just saw, which is very, um, super watchable and, um, entertaining in its own way, uh, but also v, you know, very w worrying.

And we'll talk about the the reasons to be worried here and um Maybe some of the reasons to be optimistic or at least cognizant of the upside should things um go well. But there's a lot to um fear on the front of things not going well. So yeah. Well, uh let's just take it from the the top.

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