Hey everyone this is Aza and this is Tristan

Welcome to your undivided attention and today we're going to do a very different kind of episode on your undivided attention.

You know, we're all interested in how does AI and humanity go well.

And we often talk about solutions to that, you know, technical solutions like dealing with the chips or the training data that gets used to make AI or policy solutions.

But there's this kind of deeper question, which is what is the drive to make AI in the first place?

And what solutions would be enough? drive to make AI in the first place?

And what solutions would be enough

when the drive behind building it

is almost religious or mythical in nature?

Now a lot of you might think this is sounding a little bit weird for hearing divided attention, but a friend of CHTs kind of went behind the scenes and talked to a lot of the major players at the AI Labs.

He wrote me an email about the conversations that he's been having,

summarizing why everyone at the end of the day is building this.

Here's what he said.

In the end, a lot of the tech people I'm talking to,

when I really grill them on it, They retreat into number one, determinism. Number two, the

inevitable replacement of biological life with digital life. And number three, that being a good thing

anyways. And he goes on to say that these AI leaders have an emotional desire to meet and speak to the most intelligent entity they've ever met and they have some egoreligious intuition that they'll somehow be a part of it.

It's thrilling to start an exciting fire. They feel they will die either way so they'd prefer to light it

and see what happens.

Now the quote I just read does not I think describe why everyone is pursuing AI.

In fact I'd say most people are not driven by this.

But there's a handful of people at the kind of core center of some of the frontier AGI development that I think do have this psychology.

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