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We Are Not Responsible Enough to Handle AI · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: For the first time, somebody hit the brakes on the smartest machine ever built.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Not because it broke, but because it works too well.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: The government quietly asked the biggest AI lab in the country to slow down the release of its newest model, to spread it out, to stagger it.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Don't drop the whole thing on the world at once.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And the AI lab, well, they said yes.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a recall.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a bug.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: This is a piece of technology so capable that the people in charge decided that the public should get it in pieces, on a leash, at a pace that they can actually control.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is the whole show today, because once you understand that move, everything else this week starts to make sense.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Slowing down the release does not slow down the building.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Those are two different engines.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: One is how fast they hand the keys to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other is how fast they build the next car in the garage.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: You can throttle the first one all day long.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: The second one, it never stops.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: So picture two lines on a graph.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: One line is what the public is allowed to use.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: The other line is what these labs have already have running behind locked doors.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Every time they show the public line, the private line keeps climbing.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: The gap between the two gets wider and wider.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: So for there, for years, there's a running joke in the AI world.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would say, oh, the real breakthrough already happened inside of what we're using.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just haven't seen it yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: People laughed.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: This week that joke stopped being a joke.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: When you deliberately hold back the release, you're admitting the thing inside the building is further ahead than the thing in your hands.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a restaurant with two menus: the one they hand you at the table and the one the chef actually cooks from in the back.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: We've been ordering off the polite menu this entire time.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now let me show you why this matters for you.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: The person watching this on a break, not for some investor that lives his existence in a glass tower.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: When power gets held back, it doesn't disappear, it pools, it concentrates.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: The people inside the building get further and further ahead of the people outside the building.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And the people outside the building, well, that's us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The plumber, the teacher, the nurse, the single mom running a sign business off of her phone at midnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the thing that I'm not going to let slide.
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  SPEAKER_00: The folks building these systems are not sitting around thinking about your mortgage.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not them being evil, it's just plain and simple math.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're optimizing for the race they are in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So somebody has to do the thinking about us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's actually the job I signed up for.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: And the race is real because this isn't happening to us in a vacuum.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: When one side slows down what it shows the public, the other side of the world gets a chance to catch up to that public line.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Not the secret line, but the public one.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: So now you have a strange situation, Brewing.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: A country that was months behind gets to close the visible gap, while the leaders quietly pull further ahead in private.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: That sets up a fight over who is even allowed to release what.
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  SPEAKER_00: Talk of bans, talk of approval lists, talk of real penalties for shipping the wrong model.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the trap.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of that touches the part that actually matters.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: The machines that are learning to improve themselves don't care about a release schedule.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: You can ban a download.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't ban the building.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: So the policy fights over what gets shipped while the real action keeps happening where nobody's losing.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's your big story, and hold on to that because every other headline this week is a branch off that same trunk.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about your wallet because this already showed up at the checkout counter.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: One of the biggest companies on Earth just raised the price of its laptops and tablets by$200 or more.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: First time they have pushed this kind of cost straight to the consumer.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: The reason, well, it's memory.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: The chips that store and move data are suddenly scarce and expensive because every AI data center on the planet is buying them by the truckload.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Think about what that means.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: The AI boom is not just a thing on your screen anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is reaching into a store, into a price tag, into the thing that you are going to buy your kid for school.
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  SPEAKER_00: The head of that company said the cost spike is unlike anything he has ever seen in the last 40 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a new kind of inflation, and it's not coming from gas or groceries first.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's coming from compute, from the electricity, from the memory, from the warehouses full of machines learning to think.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cost has to go somewhere, and it always rolls downhill to us like an out-of-control snowball.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when somebody tells you AI's free, gently remind them nothing is free.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody is paying for a power bill.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lately, more and more, it's showing up on yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, on the flip side of that, because it's not all squeezed, there's an escape hatch, and it's called efficiency.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: The fix for expensive AI is cheaper AI, and the engineers are chasing it hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a new work on running these systems, completely different kinds of hardware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Physical systems, substrates that sit power instead of guzzling it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The goal is a thousand times more efficient while keeping the quality very high.
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  SPEAKER_00: And under the hood, the chips themselves are about to take a leap.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: There is a new design that crams nearly a hundred billion tiny switches into a piece of silicon the size of your fingernail, smaller than a nanometer.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: To put that in plain terms, a nanometer is so small you could line up tens of thousands of them across a single human hair.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're building that now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The promise is up to 70% better efficiency in the next handful of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And why should you care about a fingernail full of switches?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because efficiency, that's the great equalizer.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: When the tech gets cheaper to run, it stops being a toy for giants and starts being a tool for the rest of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hairstylist gets an assistant, the contractor gets a dispatcher, the corner shop gets a system that used to cost a fortune.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the door I'm trying to hold open for everyone.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the work changing, here's a number that stopped me cold.
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  SPEAKER_00: A coding tool inside one of these big labs is now writing almost all of its own output.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking 99.8% of the code it produces every week generated by the machine itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people using it are not just programmers anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Folks who never wrote a line of code in their life are using it more than a hundred times as much as they were less than a year ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: The machine is largely building the machine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the door to using it just swung wide open to the regular people.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's the difference between needing a slight, a licensed electrician for every little thing and suddenly being handed a tool that wires the house for you while you point at where you want the lights.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is happening right now in real companies with real deadlines.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is exactly where I live.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the work voice systems that answer the phone for businesses at two o'clock in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Automations that follow up with a lead so the owner can actually sleep or work somewhere else.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: The thing that giants are building for themselves, we can point at our own lives, at our own businesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the whole game.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Not watching the future happen for other people or to them, but deploying it ourselves.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now let me take you somewhere that sounds like science fiction and is actually becoming science fact, and it's sitting in a lab right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The body.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: There's a company whose stock jumped 24% on early results for a hair loss treatment that an AI designed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not discovered by accident, designed.
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  SPEAKER_00: A major drug company put a hand,$100 million behind it and behind a treatment for a painful condition that affects millions of women and has been ignored for far too long.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: There's a research group pointing at the same AI biology at rare diseases.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ones too small to ever get attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ones where a family is on their own with a diagnosis nobody has ever heard of.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a team that took the image of the blood vessels inside a living brain through the intact skull with sound waves.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: They put the whole method out in front of anybody to build on it.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is a step towards a day when checking what's happening inside your head is as simple as putting on a skull cap or a headset.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: For most of history, the cutting edge of medicine was for the few, the well-connected, the wealthy, the people who knew which door to knock on.
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  SPEAKER_00: When AI designs the drug and somebody pushes the method for free, the edge starts reaching for the rest of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The veteran, the grandmother, the kid nobody could diagnose.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have to make sure it actually gets here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody stops it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the body is going mobile in another way too.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's now a humanoid robot, one that walks and runs and gets back up when it falls, seeing for around the price of a decent gaming computer, under$5,000.
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  SPEAKER_00: A robot in that range is not a someday number, that a this year number for Christmas.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now here's the hard one.
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  SPEAKER_00: The defense side rewrote its own rule book.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: The language now allows AI to take the first step in a wartime action with a human watching.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's watching, folks, not pulling the trigger.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Watching.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: We've spent years promising that there would always be a human fully in the loop.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is a quiet step towards a human standing next to the loop instead of inside it.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm not here to scare you, I want to be straight with you, but when a system can move faster than a person can react, putting a human nearby is not the same as putting a human in charge.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone who's ever had to make a split-second decision under pressure knows the difference between being the one who decides and being the one who is told after.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should all want to know which one we are signing up for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Closer to home, there's finally an honest attempt to measure what AI is doing to our jobs.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: One state stood up a tracker to watch for it.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: The early read is not a sudden collapse, no overnight apocalypse, instead of it's it's a real pain hitting certain educated workers in certain fields first.
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  SPEAKER_00: That matches what I see on the ground.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a tidal wave, it's a slow ride.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: And slow, slow are the ones that catch people who are sure the water would have never reached them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what do we do with all this?
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm not going to leave you standing in a storm without a coat.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the through line: the single most important pattern of the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: The distance between what AI can do and what we are allowed to see is growing on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: The release gets throttled and price quietly climbs.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: The robots get cheap, the drugs get designed by the software, the weapons get a little bit more autonomous, and the real power keeps pooling in a small number of rooms most of us will never stand in.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a reason to panic, but it is a reason to pay attention because here's what they're counting on.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: They're counting on the rest of us, watching the polite menu while they cook the real one.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: They're counting on us feeling like, well, this is too big, it's too fast, it's too technical.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's none of our business.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: It is our business.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is the most important our business will ever be.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we learn it.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: We use the tools the moment they are cheap enough to touch.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: We put the voice agent on our small business.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: We let the AI draft the letter and design the flyer and answer the phone.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: We close the gap on our own side with our own hands instead of waiting for permission.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: There's an old line I keep coming back to.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: The oldest secrets are the ones that get read last.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: This week, researchers finally enrolled a scroll that was buried and sealed for almost 2,000 years and read it in the first time.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know what it turned out to be?
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  SPEAKER_00: A lesson on how to live well, on ethics, on keeping your head when the entire world is on fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: 2,000 years buried.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: And the message at the center of it was about character.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can stagger a release, you can throttle a download, you can hold the menu back, but you can't throttle a mind that has decided to finally understand.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is the one thing they cannot put a leash, and that's yours.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the assignment.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Stay curious, stay sharp, stay in the room even when they would rather have you wait outside.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is AI with honor.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the whole reason this show exists is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: The power should not be only to the people who can afford to live in glass towers.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: It belongs to all of us the plumber, the nurse, the veteran, the single mom at midnight, AI for everyone, not just the wealthy, not just the connected, but everyone.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be right here tomorrow reading by the menu that they didn't hand us.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: Take care of each other, and please be careful out there, and thank you for watching.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Connor with honor.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Good day.