Hey, everyone, it's Tristan Harris.

And this is Azaraskin.

Thanks so much for coming to listen to your invited attention.

So many of you will have seen the AI doc by now.

That's the new film that we just did an episode with The Filmmakers.

If you haven't seen the film, there's still plenty of time to go see it in theaters.

It's everywhere all throughout the US, and soon to be hopefully, and internationally.

And Aza and I are really excited about the work that this film can accomplish.

Because in essence, what we're trying to do is create clarity that will create agency.

That if everyone knows that everyone else knows, that there's a problem up ahead and the way

that AI will land us in a future that nobody wants, if everybody can see that clearly,

then we can collectively put our hand on the steering wheel and steer to a different future.

And I think the question and the thing that the film leaves kind of unresolved is how do we steer? How do we get to that better future with AI? And that's what we want to talk about today. What are the actual steps that we can take today to prevent the worst case scenarios? You know, there's a spectrum of futures available to us. We may not be able to get to perfect. There's going to be some damage. And also, we can still steer. There's still time for that. And just to say, like, if you

haven't yet seen the film, I think one of the things the film does very well is that scoops everybody up.

It really represents all sides, not just like fairly, but strongly. That if you are really excited

about the benefits that AI can bring, the film not only talks about those, but points out that

most people don't go far enough in the benefits. And same thing on the downsides. It really

highlights the downsides, highlights the AI race to deploy that is creating those catastrophic risks.

And then points out that actually most of the risks that people think about aren't big enough.

And what I'm excited about for this episode is that when everyone sees that the direction that we're going is one that we're not going to want to live in,

whether you are like a teenager who's not going to have a livelihood growing up,

whether you're a teacher who's having to watch their kids sort of have cognitive decline all the way up to,

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