Tristan Harris: Beyond the AI dilemma | CogX Festival 2023

This video should have millions of views. Tristan is one of the few that gives me optimism for an otherwise bleak trajectory.

I remember reading a letter we received from the head of a major fund in which my company was invested. He sent out the letter to investors following the 2007-8 financial crash. The fund manager stated that: "We have decided that we will no longer invest in assets we do not understand." This was after the crash, which was in significant part, caused by our unregulated financial derivatives market. The fund manager, whose fund had been around for decades, had invested heavily in derivatives - which they did not understand. Lather, rinse, repeat.

23:30 Tracking progress is increasingly hard because progress is accelerating. So ai's could get smarter than people and we won't even know about it. This is all terrifying!

Many thanks! I can use this in teaching. Next time some links to the papers and articles mentioned would be useful. Note that your satirical reference to Boeing at about 28:36, may in fact be true ;)

nicely done Tristan

Great talk about what's coming

Let's face it: the genie is out of the bottle. The day after – is already, today.

We are missing accountability and who will hold them accountable? The government? ya rigth, 2008 financial crisis Lenders and banks were slapped on the wrist and then bailed out.

12:47 “1000 eyes, they’re in the walls. They’re in the walls.”

It’s hard for me to believe it’s the algorithm going “you’d love this” the way it did pre-2016

The reason this has so few views because it contains truth and tries to educate people. At least half of our uneducated country does not believe in truth or want to hear it. We are doomed.

Thank's How about AI and synthetictelepathy? It is already in use.

My comments (3 & 4 down) were not made on here, I don't know how they got here, as they were made on Joe Rogans' podcast EP. 2076 where he has Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin on. Strange ......

As a retired engineer who worked in Tech for a significant portion of my career, I think all the gloom and doom are overblown. We will figure it out over time. We have to understand that AI today is nothing more than a large regression model. I have done a tremendous amount of modeling in my career and we need to understand that ALL models have limitations. This includes AI. The difference between a human and math is that a human can handle an unique situation, whereas an AI regression model is that it can handle only what it has been trained on.

unlike a BS Ted talks. this video is on point and factual. really would be distributed so at least ppl would know that they are on rail tracks and the train is coming

If people will start to enjoy ordinary things like.....empty room, to relax, instead of a cluttered room, with stuff. Exercising in nature, instead of playing videogames. Giving some money to the poor instead of playing in a casino or being obsessed with bitcoin etc. Ordinary things bring much more joy. and you may start with slowly stopping watching the tv. The less you will watch it the better you will feel, create your own program. Then you realize its easy also to watch social media less.

They’ve had advanced AI for years. Under the covers. Highly advanced.

This guy is unintentionally informing us that AI is in the process of creating a world where 3/4 of the population are non working and have all their basic needs satisfied, while the remaining humans will be the adventurers ie the hierarchy. That’s the future.

Part of the hype machine from Silicon Vally

Last question is, ‘what do the corporations want? I guess dominance thus profits….we’re deep deep deep into s*it😢