Open AI, Anthropic, and to some extent GEM are explicitly trying to build super

intelligence to transform the world.

And many of the leaders of these companies, many of the researchers at these companies, and

then hundreds of academics and so forth in AI have all signed a statement

saying this could kill everyone. And so we've got these like important facts that people

need to understand. These people are building superintelligence. What does that even look like

and how could that possibly result in killing us all? We've written this scenario depicting what

that might look like. It's actually like my best guess scenario depicting what that might look like.

It's actually my best guess as to what the future will look like.

Hey, everyone. This is Tristan Harris. And this is Daniel Barquet. Welcome to your undivided attention.

So a couple months ago, AI researcher and futurist Daniel Kokatello and a team of experts at the AI Futures Project released a document online called AI 2027.

And it's a work of speculative futurism that's forecasting two possible outcomes of the current AI arms race that we're in.

And the point was to lay out this picture of what might realistically happen if the different

pressures that drove the AI race all went really quickly and to show how those different

pressures interrelate.

So how economic competition, how geopolitical intrigue, how acceleration of AI research, and

the inadequacy of AI safety research, how all those things come together to produce

a radically different future that we aren't prepared to handle and are even prepared to think about.

So in this work, there's two different scenarios, and one's a little bit more hopeful than the

other, but they're both pretty dark. I mean, one ends with a newly empowered, super-intelligent

AI that surpasses human intelligence in all domains and ultimately

causing the end of human life on Earth.

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