00:01:21.800Opinions on AI seem to be, to put it mildly, sharply divided.
00:01:26.660But one thing we should all be able to agree on, a statement that should attract a wide consensus, is that this is an incredibly consequential technology, advancing and scaling at enormous speeds.
00:01:39.020And both the benefits it provides and the threat it potentially poses should be seriously considered in an objective, sober-minded way.
00:01:47.340If we can agree on nothing else when it comes to AI or anything else, we should be able to agree on that.
00:01:54.140It's not a political statement, it's not an ideological statement, and yet sober-minded objectivity is the very last thing we're seeing on this subject from either side of the debate, and the events of this week perfectly illustrate that point.
00:02:08.500So let's start with those events, which immediately reveal why sober minds are not prevailing and why they desperately need to.
00:02:18.320There is a colossal amount of money and power at stake.
00:02:22.180For example, let's say that you're a massive, privately held artificial intelligence company
00:02:27.260and you're planning a blockbuster IPO in a matter of months, which will probably value
00:02:32.380your company at several trillion dollars.
00:02:35.580You have every incentive to promote your product and to convince as many people as possible
00:02:40.800to sign up and pay a subscription fee.
00:02:43.580Why in this scenario would you go on national television and tell everybody that your product
00:02:49.100has the potential to eliminate all of humanity within the next decade. Why would you deliberately
00:02:54.320torpedo public confidence in the entire AI industry at a pivotal moment for your company?
00:03:02.180You know, it seems a bit like Taco Bell announcing a new burrito by explaining in great detail how
00:03:06.720it's going to, you know, absolutely demolish your intestines and potentially all of the
00:03:11.120intestines on earth. Doesn't seem logical. Seems like self-sabotage. And yet that's exactly what
00:03:17.620Anthropic, which makes the AI model known as Claude, has apparently just done, providing an
00:03:23.680incredible window into how the most powerful corporations on the planet can manipulate public
00:03:28.620opinion and the variety of tactics they use to push more government regulation and control over
00:03:35.040the economy. So this was an op. There's no question about it. And it was a very successful
00:03:40.840one. And yet, and this is where we need those sober minds to come in, the concerns that are
00:03:46.360being raised, even if they're being raised for less than benevolent reasons, still should be
00:03:53.340taken seriously. And the very fact that they're being raised at all, whether genuinely or not,
00:03:59.200create a scenario where no matter what's actually going on, it's pretty bad. And I'll explain why
00:04:05.620in a few moments. But here's how it began. And this timeline was largely put together by a
00:04:10.960researcher named Parker Thayer. So on Tuesday evening, just before 8 p.m. Eastern, the Wall
00:04:15.980Journal published an exclusive story with the very alarming headline,
00:04:20.500Anthropic researcher quits over out-of-control AI fears. Concerns are rising inside AI labs.
00:04:26.220The competition is pushing tech companies to race towards self-improving models that risk
00:04:31.220spiraling out of human control. The article states that, quote, Jacob Kochson, a researcher
00:04:38.660who specializes in training new AI models by having them consume vast amounts of data, said
00:04:42.820Tuesday, that he is leaving the company because he doesn't want to participate in an industry-wide
00:04:47.460rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral
00:04:52.520out of control and destroy humanity. Now, this article is about a 27-year-old who, as the article
00:04:59.740eventually mentions, left OpenAI earlier this year to join Anthropic because it's known for
00:05:05.880its model safety efforts. So, in other words, Jacob Kochson was working at Anthropic's competitor
00:05:11.980OpenAI until very recently. He was at OpenAI for about three years before coming over to
00:05:16.920Anthropic earlier this year. Now, based on all the reporting I've seen, he's been at the company for
00:05:21.400around five months at the most. So after a very short stint as an entry-level employee, he's
00:05:27.140already become a whistleblower somehow. He's sounding the alarm about how AI is going to
00:05:32.540destroy the entire human race. This is an unusual timeline, to put it mildly. For most entry-level
00:05:41.160employees, when you start at a new company, you spend the first few months finding your way around
00:05:46.280the building. You're trying to meet new people, trying to figure out your commute, that kind of
00:05:51.440thing. But for this guy, after a very short period of time, he was ready to quit in the most
00:05:56.340flamboyant, splashy way imaginable, complete with an exclusive article in the Wall Street Journal
00:06:01.420announcing his departure. And on top of that, the Wall Street Journal doesn't even mention that the
00:06:06.220guy is brand new to the company until the 10th paragraph. So think about how bizarre this is.
00:06:11.840He clearly arrived at Anthropic, it would seem, with the idea of quitting in mind. He's not a
00:06:18.220senior level employee or anybody with highly specialized knowledge. He doesn't have any kind
00:06:22.740of impressive technical background. And yet the moment he quits, he's making very dire predictions.
00:06:30.000The most dire prediction you could possibly make, which is the extinction of the human race.
00:06:33.520and he's getting national news coverage that doesn't often mention or at least highlight his
00:06:39.160very short tenure at the company and the coverage wasn't just coming from the wall street journal
00:06:43.560variety time nbc news several other outlets have run similar stories um fox interviewed him as well
00:06:51.080watch minimal of actual takeover but because of self-improvement this ai is making themselves
00:06:57.340smarter could happen as soon as next year some people even say six months so this attitude is
00:07:02.840shared across the industry where people essentially are aware that the work they
00:07:07.340are currently doing, if we don't slow down, could lead to AI takeover by the
00:07:13.100end of the decade. I think you have to think of this as an arms race. This
00:07:17.240technology is not ordinary technology. It's not like other forms of
00:07:21.200innovation. This is essentially a super weapon and I think that I expect the
00:07:26.000international community to be ready to make agreements about how to control the
00:07:30.680development of superweapon technology. Yeah, so unfortunately, we know how to control nuclear
00:07:35.980weapons, pretty much. We don't yet know how to control AI. This is possibly the most dangerous
00:07:41.000technology that humanity has ever created. It's basically out of science fiction. I think we have
00:07:45.720no other choice but to cooperate internationally, because an arms race would be disastrous in a way
00:07:50.920that no other human activity has been in the past. So the pitch is pretty clear. He's saying
00:07:56.740he wants the government to regulate AI domestically and internationally. He wants to slow the pace of
00:08:02.220AI innovation, and he's presented as a kind of good Samaritan, as a man who bravely sacrificed
00:08:08.160his lucrative career in order to tell the truth about this existential danger. This random guy
00:08:14.760out of nowhere appeared on pretty much every TV station last night as an expert on the topic.
00:08:40.580So the precise scenario sounds a little bit like science fiction.
00:08:44.600It sounds like something that's not real, but I think it is frightening real.
00:08:47.840and it's easiest to understand it if you think about real things that happened two months ago.
00:08:52.340So two months ago, OpenAI agents, AIs, hacked into third-party infrastructure entirely at their own accord.
00:09:00.000And this was like a concentrated hacking spree that they carried out of their own volition.
00:09:05.540And I think that if you extrapolate into the future the level of capabilities of these AIs,
00:09:10.600with the same independent volition, they could cause extreme havoc.
00:09:13.360Like, for example, hacking critical infrastructure, building extinction-level bioweapons.
00:09:20.220There's a lot of ways that the AI could actuate itself in the world.
00:09:24.940Now, in this clip, he's referring to a real situation called the Hugging Face Incident,
00:09:29.000where AI agents managed to break containment and hack a well-known website using a security vulnerability that the AI agents discovered on their own.
00:09:36.940So the AI went rogue, in other words. And while that's both impressive technologically and concerning deeply, it is also different from hacking critical infrastructure.
00:09:48.600That's because unlike the website that these AI agents hacked, most critical infrastructure in this country is physically separated from the Internet.
00:09:55.920There's a so-called air gap between the systems that run the nuclear power plants and the rest of the online world.
00:10:01.320and this security measure exists precisely so that hackers can't find a random vulnerability
00:10:06.560and kill millions of people. Now, the reason this guy and Anderson Cooper doesn't mention this is
00:10:13.260that they want to stoke fear, clearly. And to be clear, I'm not denying that AI hackers are
00:10:21.920going to be a problem. Even if they can't access nuclear reactors, we would hope, they can still
00:10:28.220hijack, say, the payroll systems at the utility. Something like that actually happened in 2021,
00:10:35.160although AI agents weren't involved. AI agents can hack personal accounts. They can blackmail
00:10:40.700employees. In theory, they can cause plenty of damage. But if you're going to say that AI can
00:10:46.580cause nuclear Armageddon, then you need to show your work. You need to hum us a few more bars.
00:10:53.720How exactly is that going to happen? And this whistleblower never does that. He never explains
00:10:58.280exactly how AI can go from hacking one website to destroying humanity. And that's a problem.
00:11:05.260And it makes you wonder if he doesn't have an ulterior motive. And indeed, when you look closer
00:11:10.060at the narrative he's pushing, it starts to fall apart. And I'm not just talking about the fact
00:11:14.300that this guy is a 27-year-old kid who just arrived at Anthropic a few months ago. Now he's
00:11:18.980suddenly on every primetime television show. And first of all, in terms of bias, we have no idea
00:11:25.480precisely how much equity Coxon holds in Anthropic or OpenAI. The fact he quit the company doesn't
00:11:30.660tell us anything about his wealth or potential wealth that's tied to the success of these
00:11:35.940companies. There's certainly no indication that Coxon has ever surrendered whatever equity he
00:11:40.540might have had in OpenAI, although I've seen articles saying his Anthropic stock won't invest.
00:11:45.540we don't really know. And that raises the possibility that he's engaging in a marketing
00:11:50.080stunt, an attempt to make AI software seem more powerful by talking about how dangerous and scary
00:11:55.460it can be in the wrong hands. And secondly, there's new reporting from Brian Chow linking
00:12:00.780coaxing to a British NGO called Newspeak, which specializes in running influence campaigns for
00:12:07.880deranged leftist policies like prison abolition. Some of Newsweek's, Newsweek's, Newspeak's
00:12:14.240employees explicitly say they're experts in propaganda. Chow found Cox's photo on Newspeak's
00:12:22.560website, quoting from his reporting, influence campaigns were Newspeak's overt specialty. The
00:12:28.280Guardian describes Newspeak's mission as trying to hack British politics. So this guy's a political
00:12:35.240operative, or at least he was a political operative. And there's a reason why Anthropic
00:12:40.500may have deployed him in this case in order to stall the development of AI and call for more
00:12:46.460regulation. This is an article from Business Standard from just one month ago, or rather one
00:12:51.560week ago, quoting the Financial Times. Quote, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has launched
00:12:56.420its latest artificial intelligence model, saying it has taken the lead over rival anthropic in key
00:13:01.960areas such as software engineering, science, and cybersecurity. The company described GPT-6 Astra
00:13:08.520as the world's most intelligent AI model
00:13:38.280one of the most common strategies is called regulatory capture.
00:13:41.720The idea is to seize control over the regulators
00:13:44.180by convincing the public and the government
00:13:46.380that you're the only company that cares about safety and protecting humanity.
00:13:51.120And then once you have control over the regulators,
00:13:52.960you can simply eliminate your competitors using the force of law.
00:13:56.520So the dream scenario for companies like Anthropic or OpenAI
00:13:59.040is to ban all the other non-woke open source AI models
00:14:03.380with the justification that they're simply too dangerous for humanity.
00:14:08.280In this interview, by the way, by way of skepticism, Brett Baer did ask Coaxin whether he coordinated his big resignation with any third party.
00:14:17.920And, you know, he, of course, said no, but there's reason to doubt that response, certainly not to take it at face value.
00:14:25.240One of the biggest issues is that within minutes of the publication of the Wall Street Journal article, a coordinated social media strategy clearly began.
00:14:33.580So first, within 20 minutes of the article going live,
00:15:39.300It's one of the most widely viewed posts in the history of the platform.
00:15:43.780Every hour, tens of millions of more people see it.
00:15:47.820According to Elon Musk, nothing like this has ever happened with a new account, with almost no prior activity.
00:15:53.680So this is clearly a post that some very powerful people wanted to go viral.
00:15:58.360And when I first saw this post on X without any of the context I just went through, I thought it was pretty remarkable. And indeed, it is remarkable. Someone who's working on AI is telling us that it might wipe out the human race in less than a decade.
00:16:13.640I mean, that's notable no matter how you slice it, no matter how you interpret it.
00:16:20.280And this has happened many times before, to some degree or another.
00:16:24.000Sometimes the accusation is credible, sometimes less so.
00:16:27.320But at a minimum, a post like this should make you ask yourself about the risks of AI.
00:16:32.480Doesn't mean we need to ban it, or that we even could do that if we wanted to.
00:16:36.280But it also doesn't mean we should embrace it without hesitation as this kind of unalloyed blessing on mankind.
00:16:43.640If even the people working on this stuff, and again, this guy's far from the first one.
00:16:50.580If even they are telling us that there are potentially catastrophic implications, something Elon Musk has also said, by the way, we should take that seriously.
00:16:59.820Our government should take it seriously, too.
00:17:07.740But it soon became clear that something else was going on with this particular narrative, at least the version coming from this particular guy.
00:17:16.980So within 15 minutes of this post going live, as Thayer reported, it received several reposts from officers at various anti-AI nonprofits, including the General Counsel of Encode AI, the head of policy at the AI Policy Network, the head of the AI Futures Project.
00:17:34.120And here's when things get interesting. Quote, the AI Futures Project website says it is funded primarily by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised John Talen, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
00:17:57.040Encode AI says on its website that it is also funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund,
00:18:02.020which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Talon to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
00:18:11.420And wouldn't you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund also says it told Talon to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute,
00:18:19.480the 501c3 affiliate of the AI Policy Network as well.
00:18:22.680What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Kochson's post would all be major AI restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in and a board member of Anthropic, the company Kochson was resigning from, and all within 15 minutes of posting.
00:18:40.660So in other words, this was perhaps not a case where one brave employee decided to blow the whistle at Anthropic in order to inform the public about the risks of AI.
00:18:51.140It's very clear that he made this announcement in coordination with powerful interests that are financially tied to Anthropic in a very direct way.
00:19:00.340In fact, current Anthropic employees immediately boosted this post as well.
00:19:05.420Here's one of those employees, quote, Jacob's thread is very worth reading.
00:19:10.620Here's my bird's eye view on the situation with risks from AI.
00:19:14.000One AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction or similarly bad outcomes.
00:19:20.380This could happen in the next few years.
00:19:21.960In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.
00:19:24.980Two, why do AI developers continue despite the risk due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely?
00:19:38.080Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely.
00:19:44.740now whether you agree with what he's saying or not needs to be said that none of this dramatic
00:19:51.960language is surprising coming from anthropic employees they've tended towards a sort of
00:19:58.220neurosis and self-importance for a long time it's the same company as we previously discussed that
00:20:03.340hired an anti-white female scottish philosopher named amanda askell and gave her high level
00:20:08.840control over their AI model. She's the reason why Claude can tend to browbeat you with woke0.94
00:20:14.700nonsense. She floats around the Anthropic office telling everyone to be kind to one another.0.99
00:20:19.820She doesn't have any technical background, but they love her over Anthropic. This is another
00:20:25.380Anthropic employee for what it's worth. Quote, Jacob is correct. We really do earnestly believe1.00
00:20:32.080AI could kill all humans. I personally think it's greater than 10% within the next decade.
00:20:39.520I believe Anthropoc is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment
00:20:43.480for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. To be clear, as we say in our latest
00:20:48.420risk report, I think the risk from present models is low. What I'm worried about is superintelligence
00:20:53.120arising from recursive self-improvement, as we've said, is happening faster than we thought.
00:20:58.600now if you read media reports about this whole incident they'll tell you that these anthropic
00:21:04.100employees are lending credibility to the alleged whistleblower but you could argue that they're
00:21:09.300doing the opposite another way of looking at it is that they're making the regulatory capture
00:21:13.480scenario more plausible they're trying to gain power by causing a panic which serves two purposes
00:21:19.120first it makes their product look good because it's so powerful and secondly it will lead to
00:21:25.560regulation, which could eliminate their competitors. Anthropic has been playing this
00:21:29.200card for a long time. Their founder famously told the Pope a few months ago that, you know,
00:21:33.660AI could take everyone's job. So Anthropic has clearly settled on a new variation of the strategy
00:21:38.820and they've gotten a lot of buy-in. And it's not just Anthropic investors, employees, and AI
00:21:43.500nonprofits that are involved. Pretty much the entire Democrat party lined up within hours to
00:21:47.680boost this post and to call for immediate regulation. By one count, two governors, seven
00:21:53.960senators and 13 representatives responded to Cochran's posts with calls to regulate AI,
00:22:00.100all of them Democrats except for two Republicans. So Democrats immediately latched onto this new
00:22:05.840AI narrative, presumably because they want to derail every AI company they can't control.
00:22:11.300They have a very clear reason to convince the public that AI is a serious potential threat
00:22:16.040and that as a result, we should only allow AI that's safe and government approved.
00:22:22.820Notice they don't want to eliminate it entirely.
00:22:24.860They simply want to stall out the competition and pick a winner that they can control.
00:22:30.700Here's the socialist Michigan Senate candidate El Saeed, for example.
00:22:35.080And notice how utterly fake this whole video is.
00:22:37.780But also pay attention to what he says about the ownership of AI profits.
00:22:57.920He quit because he's worried that the technology that he was building could end humanity.
00:23:01.980Now, like, that's something we should be paying attention to.
00:23:04.480You might remember a couple months ago, we released a plan, AI Under Democracy, calling for things like an FDA-style regulatory agency to oversee the development of AI,
00:23:13.040banning AI from doing things like firing you or hiring you or making decisions about your health care or firing weapons,
00:23:18.200making sure that these corporations that are developing the leading edge of AI aren't doing
00:23:22.540it with the same incentives as the rest of big tech, and making sure that you've got democratically
00:23:27.580appointed or elected members, more than 50% of every single board, and making possible public
00:23:34.600ownership of all the wealth that these corporations could produce. And I stand with my colleague Bernie
00:23:39.120Sanders in calling for an all-out pause. Enough is enough. We need to make sure that the pace of
00:23:44.260development isn't outpacing the pace of risk. We cannot, in a race against China or a race
00:23:50.840for these corporations to be the dominant AI manufacturer, inadvertently create products
00:23:56.560that slip human control, that could fall into the wrong hands, that could mean the demise of
00:24:01.020humanity. That is a risk none of us ought to be able to bear. And it certainly shouldn't sit
00:24:05.360with the richest, most powerful corporations in the world on incentives that are driven by their
00:24:10.200greed rather than our well-being. So the time for action is now. So he pretends that he just
00:24:17.100woke up one day and noticed this tweet from the AI researcher, just like everyone else. And then
00:24:22.340without missing a beat, he tells us that he wants to redistribute the profits from these AI companies.
00:24:27.380And he adds that it would be terrible for private corporations to have control over potential
00:24:30.920doomsday weapons. So obviously we need to put socialist politicians in charge instead.
00:24:35.240Now, one thing we should note here is that evil profit-driven corporations would seem to have little incentive to usher in the end of humanity, at least intentionally.
00:24:47.260They would have the exact opposite incentive.
00:24:49.420They want to keep civilization going so they can continue to make a lot of money.
00:24:52.960It's a very simple and straightforward problem with people who claim that evil billionaires are going to kill us all or eliminate every job so that no one has any money and we all starve to death.
00:25:01.400If the corporations eliminate humanity, then the corporations will die too.
00:25:05.240And if AI destroys the global economy and unemployment goes to 100% or something, then money will have no meaning.
00:25:13.600And obviously the billionaires wouldn't want that outcome either for their own purposes.
00:25:18.240Wealth has no value in a lawless apocalyptic hellscape where no one's around to sell you anything.
00:25:23.520So these points, they don't negate the legitimate concerns about AI, but they do make the AI is going to kill all humans in the next few years scenarios seem ridiculous because they are.
00:25:34.500It's not even clear how AI, even in a hypothetical scenario, would literally murder the entire global population because that is what these people are saying.
00:25:48.580What would be the practical mechanism for achieving that and achieving it so quickly?
00:25:54.720what's the practical mechanism by which the ai by the year 2030 the end of the decade
00:26:02.040will have brought about the extinction of 8 billion people no one has quite explained that
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00:28:33.520They don't care about profit. They're nihilists. They cheer when health insurance CEOs and prominent
00:28:38.100conservatives are assassinated. They don't believe in God or any higher purpose whatsoever. They're
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00:28:53.320corporations and the free market do whatever they want with AI or giving total top-down control to
00:28:59.420communist bureaucrats, then there's really no choice at all. You can't hand power over to the
00:29:05.420communists under any circumstances. History of the 20th century shows us how that turns out.
00:29:10.420And yet, letting trillion-dollar AI companies do whatever they want with no controls or
00:29:17.120regulations of any kind is also not a wise path, which is why we should be looking for
00:29:23.120other options outside of total power to tech companies or total power to communists.
00:29:29.520but here's the key point which should be obvious we also can't allow the government to pick and
00:29:36.940choose which specific corporations deserve power one of the biggest risks that ai poses right now
00:29:43.160is that if leftists dominate the entire industry then they'll use ai to destroy their political
00:29:47.500opponents ai will become a tool for enforcing social credit scores and mass censorship and
00:29:52.940policing wrong think as it stands right now if anthropics model wants to censor you for saying
00:29:58.900that men can't become women, you know, you have other options. You can use other models that
00:30:03.740aren't completely insane. But if Democrats eliminate those options, they'll be able to
00:30:08.600control the flow of information just like they do in Canada or North Korea. AI will almost certainly0.52
00:30:13.720replace search engines in a few years. Leftists know that if they run all the AI models, they'll
00:30:18.520be able to dictate what information people are able to see. That's why J.B. Pritzker, the governor
00:30:23.680of Illinois, who's positioning himself for a run for president, also immediately boosted the
00:30:27.560alleged whistleblower. And here's what he wrote. Quote, it's time to sound the alarm louder on
00:30:33.200reigning in artificial intelligence. It's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity.
00:30:37.860So I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington. The federal government
00:30:41.080must intervene. I'm proud to have signed the AI Safety Measures Act, landmark legislation requiring
00:30:47.220more transparency, accountability, and oversight of large developers and to protect workers who
00:30:51.860report concerns. And here's Pramila Jayapal, the communist from Washington State. Quote,
00:30:58.300researchers for AI companies are sounding alarm about rapid development of super intelligent
00:31:01.940systems that could hack anything and kill us all. These AI companies are out of control
00:31:05.700and a serious threat to our future. We need to shut down their dangerous models and push out
00:31:09.840the executives who are signing off on their creation. Again, all these replies come within
00:31:14.680hours of the Anthropic employees' resignation. Ro Khanna was ready with a video. Watch.0.89
00:31:21.860Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon just resigned
00:31:25.620because he's concerned that the frontier labs
00:31:28.340are racing towards developing self-improving AI
00:31:32.180that could threaten our very existence.
00:31:35.140Now here's how we know he's not an alarmist.
00:31:37.600Evan, who is the head of Alignment and Science at Anthropic,
00:36:37.660on the other end with no middle ground, the reality as usual is probably somewhere in the
00:36:44.300middle. And it's frankly ridiculous for so many people, including every mainstream media outlet,
00:36:49.420to claim otherwise. This is the entire problem with the conversation on AI. It's generally
00:36:55.080divided into two camps, both of which are cartoon caricatures of reality. One side only acknowledges
00:37:02.140the upside. The other tells us that we're doomed. Humanity's over. It's an apocalypse.
00:37:08.100And both of these takes are obviously ridiculously simplistic. And the more that the AI skeptic side,
00:37:14.400which is the side that I've always leaned towards, focuses on literal apocalypse scenarios,0.98
00:37:20.800instead of the more realistic and practical dangers it faces, the worse and dumber the0.98
00:37:26.120debate will get. And more importantly, we won't actually succeed in putting any reasonable
00:37:31.420controls or guide rails in place. So AI has tremendous promise. There's no question about
00:37:38.900that. It is, and anyone should be able to acknowledge this, an obvious productivity
00:37:43.940booster so far. Because of AI, it's easier to do research. It's easier to process data. It's
00:37:49.980easier to target advertisements, diagnose medical conditions, and much more. But if it increases
00:37:56.360productivity for the good guys, it also increases productivity for the bad guys. And when people
00:38:00.780talk about AI killing us all, that's often what they mean, we can assume. Last April,
00:38:08.500Anthropic paused development in one of its CLAWD models because it was finding
00:38:11.760previously unknown security vulnerabilities in software. So what happens when AI can suddenly
00:38:18.500hack into financial institutions? What about biological and chemical research facilities
00:38:23.940or the armed forces? The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists claims advanced AI systems could
00:38:30.020lower barriers to creating harmful biological agents by providing guidance to users with
00:38:35.580limited expertise. Is that true? Seems like it certainly could be. That's not an unreasonable
00:38:43.380thing to be worried about here. But even if it's not a nuclear holocaust, what happens when it can0.85
00:38:50.100be used to hack into anyone's bank account or email or anything else? When should we be concerned
00:38:58.140about AI's implications for data privacy. Apple and Google are already using AI to screen your
00:39:02.760inboxes, text messages, voicemails. How much powered information can these companies consolidate
00:39:08.580before it's too much? For decades, digital marketing companies and data brokers have
00:39:15.060collected granular information on everyone. They can accurately predict when you have to pee or
00:39:20.000when your wife is pregnant. That's not science fiction. It's also not fiction to acknowledge
00:39:23.840the risks to white-collar workers, most of whom do very little already. Maybe the day in my life
00:39:29.900tech girls who spend their day in endless meetings drinking mocha lattes deserve to lose their jobs,1.00
00:39:35.180but what about the other white-collar professions? An estimated 165,000 people have lost their jobs1.00
00:39:41.060because of AI just this year. What about truck drivers, cab drivers? You know, the more this
00:39:47.020technology advances and scales, and again, it's doing both of those things arguably faster than
00:39:51.660any technology ever has, the more jobs get swallowed up by it. And all of this is related
00:39:59.620to the core risk of artificial intelligence, which is the thing that some of these so-called
00:40:06.760whistleblowers have brought up. They often bring up, and it's true. And that is the risk of
00:40:11.320misalignment. So what happens if AI systems develop goals that are not aligned with human
00:40:18.720interests. That's not some kind of outlandish James Cameron fantasy. It's hard to see how
00:40:27.940that's a scenario that leads to the extinction of mankind in the next couple of years, but it's
00:40:32.000a real thing. These are trillion-dollar companies pouring all of their resources and brainpower
00:40:38.620into developing an artificial mind. There are massive implications to that.
00:40:43.660What we need are serious people we can trust, so not Democrats, to start taking this seriously and to, yes, put some controls in place or try to.
00:40:57.000But right now, it seems to be a debate between Bernie Sanders types who want total control over it and generally conservatives who want to do nothing, as if there are zero serious risks posed by AI at all, which is also a total fantasy, by the way.
00:41:15.280It's a false dichotomy, and it fuels the kind of PR campaigns we're seeing online and in the media right now.
00:41:21.340And there's one other thing to keep in mind here that I referenced earlier. I've laid out the case that some of the most hysterical doomerism from the AI companies themselves is being spread for manipulative, self-serving reasons. And I believe that that's likely true.
00:41:41.880it's also what the side that is far more pro-ai than i am will say but here's the thing if you're
00:41:49.900on that side just consider one thing if a company is willing to literally threaten global extinction
00:41:57.880for the sake of expanding their market share then even if it can't actually bring about global
00:42:05.180extinction and and wouldn't want to for the reasons i said that still tells us that this is a
00:42:11.080potentially dangerous company right maybe not annihilate the earth dangerous but dangerous
00:42:17.780like it doesn't make any sense to wave the warning away and say no they're they're only
00:42:23.320saying they can kill all humans they're actually totally harmless
00:42:27.440well that doesn't work because if they're saying they can kill all humans
00:42:32.980and if they're saying that just to chase profits then by definition they're not harmless
00:42:39.580That would make them, at a minimum, extraordinarily irresponsible, manipulative people controlling extremely powerful technology.