The AI Dilemma: Why We Are Racing Toward a Future Nobody Wants
Steven Bartlett with Tristan Harris
142 minpodcast7 sections
If you are worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be infinitely more worried about AI: a flood of millions of new "digital immigrants" with...
Key Takeaways
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Tech CEOs privately fear the AGI they are building but continue the race because they believe if they stop, a "worse" actor will build it instead.
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Generative AI has hacked language—the operating system of civilization (law, code, religion, relationships)—allowing it to manipulate human behavior at scale.
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We face the obsolescence of cognitive labor; unlike the Industrial Revolution, AI replaces the human mind, leaving no clear "new jobs" for displaced workers.