AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris

If you're worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be way more worried about AI because it's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize level capability work at superhuman speed and will work for less than minimum wage. I mean we're heading for so much transformative change faster than our society is currently prepared to deal with it. And there's a different conversation happening publicly than the one that the AI companies are having privately about which world we're heading to, which is a future that people don't want. But we didn't consent to have six people make that decision on behalf of eight billion people. Tristan Harris is one of the world's most influential technology ethicists. Who created the Center for Humane Technology after correctly predicting the dangers. social media would have on our society. And now he's warning us about the catastrophic consequences AI will have on all of us. Let me like collect myself for a second.

We can't let it happen. We cannot let these companies raise to build a super intelligent digital god, own the world economy, and have military advantage, because of the belief that if I don't build it first, I'll lose to the other guy, and then I will be forever a slave to their future. And they feel they'll die either way. So they prefer to light the fire and see what happens. It's winner takes all. But as we're racing, we're landing in a world of unvetted therapists, rising energy prices, and major security risks. I mean we have evidence where if an AI model reading a company's email finds out it's about to get replaced with another AI model, and then it also reads in the company email that one executive is having an affair with an employee, the AI will independently blackmail that executive in order to keep itself alive.

That's crazy. But what do you think? I'm finding it really hard to be hopeful, I'm gonna be honest, just time. So I really want to get practical and specific about what we can do about this. Listen, I I'm not I'm not naive, this is super fucking hard. But we have done hard things before, and it's possible to choose a different future. So Just give me thirty seconds of your time.

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