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- 0:00Some great guests here. I think you guys know me and opposite Prime Minister,
- 0:05but if you guys could introduce yourselves and say a bit about you and
- 0:08you know you've done both done amazing things, so please let me shy.
- 0:12Sure thing. So I'm Greg Brockman. I'm the president and co founder of
- 0:15Open Aie. But we started Opening Eye out of my apartment in twenty fifteen,
- 0:20twenty sixteen. So yeah, it's been a really exciting time to just,
- 0:24you know, be able to help not just move this field forward,
- 0:27but try to help steer it in a positive direction. I think that's really
- 0:29foundational to how I think about AI. What got me excited about this field
- 0:33is the fact it's going to be so transformative and I think it can benefit
- 0:36everyone in huge ways, but we also really need to mitigate the downsides.
- 0:40And so I think that's something that really resonated with me about the earlier conversation.
- 0:43I hope we'll talk about a lot upcoming minutes. And since Greg was
- 0:47too modest to say so, I'm going to add something to your introduction of
- 0:50yourself there, which is just a few years ago when Greg and his colleagues
- 0:55were saying, yo, in a few years we can act. We believe
- 0:59we can actually build AI that can master human language and common knowledge. A
- 1:04lot of my colleagues and AI were like, that's crazy science fiction. It's
- 1:08going to take decades, but you did it. We literally had an intern
- 1:14in twenty six teams our very first summer who we had this conversation about how
- 1:19to solve the touring test, and we had all these ideas and whatever,
- 1:22and we were like, all right, three years, we'll solve the touring
- 1:23test. And that intern told me I'm out, like I'm not joining full
- 1:26time, like you guys were crazy. And three years later we had GPT
- 1:30two, so we didn't quite solve the Turing desk. So he was right,
- 1:32But I think that we had far more progress than I think most people
- 1:34thought possible. So I'm Max tech Mark, professor doing AI research at MIT,
- 1:41and I think it was fought on what we heard earlier here from you,
- 1:46that artificial intelligence will be both a blessing and a curse. I've very
- 1:51for a long time and very excited about the blessing part, how we can
- 1:55use it to solve all the problems that we haven't been smart enough to solve
- 1:57before. And go for beyond and help life flourished for billions of years on
- 2:02Earth and beyond. And I also I'm very concerned about the curse part.
- 2:07So nine years ago I founded this nonprofit called the Future Life Institute. Together
- 2:12with Elon we launched the first ever attempt to the mainstream AI safety by launching
- 2:17a worldwide grants program and educate and do conferences and so on that you Greg
- 2:22participated also to make sure we can steer this every more powerful technology away from
- 2:28the curse towards the blessing direction. Well, can I say that I want
- 2:32to plug this book? He wrote this book and I read it. It's
- 2:37a good book. It's a very good book. Was it chat guptwo or
- 2:39I have an alibi because not even Greg was fast enough to have it written
- 2:44by the time chat gupt ain't good enough yet to do this. But from
- 2:49what I hear you guys saying, it's good. Yeah, give it a
- 2:52minute. It was thirty seconds. Well you see, Well let's talk about
- 2:54that, because you know, I think that the kind of things that you
- 2:58ring here are I think a monumental. You know, when I see the
- 3:01talent on this stage, excluding myself, I'm reminded of what JFK. John
- 3:06Kennedy said, you know, when he brought his Gifted team into the White
- 3:09House. He said, this is the most gifted team ever since that's sat
- 3:14here, ever since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. So I think you're about to
- 3:19surpass that, and you are changing history. And I'm sure you know when
- 3:22such power comes enormous responsibility. And I think that's the crux of what we're
- 3:25talking about here is how do we inject a measure of responsibility and ethics into
- 3:31this, into this exponentially changing development. How do you do that? That's
- 3:37really what I'd like to know from you. I think that this should be
- 3:40a very interesting discussion. And you know, I think I know almost everyone
- 3:45in AI, and I think I really can't think of anyone who's got bad
- 3:50motivations and AI. I think everyone I know an AI has good motivations.
- 3:53They want to create technology that helps the world. But one you can also
- 3:58say, if you think of someone like Einstein, who was obviously a very
- 4:00sort of peace loving person, and you know, he didn't think that there
- 4:05would be a nuclear bomb created as a result of his discoveries in physics.
- 4:10He wasn't thinking, let me, let's make super weapons. He was thinking,
- 4:13let's try to understand that the truth of the universe. So it's just
- 4:15important too. I always want to just preface, you know, any criticism
- 4:20of AI development with it not being a criticism of the people doing it,
- 4:25but just fair in mind that just as Einstein didn't expect his work in physics
- 4:30to lead to nuclear weapons, we need to be cautious that even with good
- 4:33intentions, the best of intentions, that we could create something bad, that
- 4:38that that's one of the possible outcomes, and we want to try to take
- 4:41whatever actions we can to ensure that the future of humanity is good and that
- 4:46is much more blessing than That's definitely why I work on it. I think
- 4:51that not for evil it turns out, But I think that balance is really
- 4:55key, and I think that one of the things that is important is to
- 4:59really calibrate the choices with respect to the technology, right because I think this
- 5:03technology it has this way of being very surprising, the way that people pictured
- 5:08like you read asthmav you read kind of all the science fiction you read Ellie
- 5:12as you're a Kowski, and kind of all this thinking people are doing about
- 5:15very smart machines that are smarter than humans, and somehow none of it really
- 5:17predicted GPT three, right. Somehow the technology that we're building, it's just
- 5:21surprising. It has very different properties. And I think that even from you
- 5:26think about like chess, people used to think chess would be we solve that,
- 5:29we solve human intelligence, and it turns out that's the first thing to
- 5:30go. And so I think that what we're really seeing is that we need
- 5:33to be calibrated and see not just what the current systems are doing. And
- 5:36this is one of the reasons we deployed chat GPT is it's just really important
- 5:40to not get in our heads and think, oh, this is how it's
- 5:42all going to play out, this is how people are going to misuse it.
- 5:44But you need to actually see that. You need to actually have people
- 5:46spending a lot of time thinking about where the slots in, where it works,
- 5:49where it doesn't, but also to really try to peer ahead. And
- 5:53so we've been putting a lot of effort into capability prediction. One of the
- 5:55things that I think was kind of undersung in our GPT four release is that
- 5:59we actually had very good predictions of exactly how good GPD four would be before
- 6:02we even trained it, and that's something we can never do with previous models.
- 6:05And I think that this and doing that it's a sidal scale, Like
- 6:10I think that's one answer for how do we actually get this right? Because
- 6:12if you can see around the corner, then you have an answer and an
- 6:15AI. It's always been the opposite. We've always been taken by surprise.
- 6:17Well, I want to ask you because there are sort of layers of questions
- 6:21here. The Max's book takes you to the existential question of whether you know
- 6:28you project basically machine intelligence or human intelligence into the cosmos, human intelligence turned
- 6:33into machine intelligence into the cosmos and so on. That's a big philosophical question.
- 6:39I'd like to think we have about six years for that, okay,
- 6:42But the other questions that I'm dealing with as a leader of a country that
- 6:45is blessed with a lot of AI talent rated about number two and talent relative
- 6:50to population size and AI. But I wanted to be among the top three
- 6:55because it's important to advance the country. But I think also for it raises
- 6:59questions that we raised before. But here's another one. Okay, as chat
- 7:03GUP four or chat. GPT eight comes into being, and you have Hollywood
- 7:08strikes already about screenwriters and directors and actors. Okay, what do you think
- 7:13will happen to the job market? I mean, we had this conversation,
- 7:16what do you think will happen? I mean, you know, you can
- 7:19tell me, you can comfort me with all previous revolutions that there were more
- 7:24jobs, many more jobs created than lost. But you really believe that now?
- 7:27Yeah, I think it's I think it's far from obvious. I think
- 7:29it is a correct question. And I also think that it's important to kind
- 7:32of look at the whole picture of for sure, their jobs are going to
- 7:35go away, what's going to be the balance of like, you know,
- 7:39marginal job creation? And you can tell the story of oh, it's going
- 7:41to be very comforting you look at every previous technology. I do think AI
- 7:45is not like every previous technology, right that this is usually we kind of
- 7:47are seeing automation of mechanical parts of creation, and here it's almost this creative
- 7:54aspect of creation. But I think that we want to even go one step
- 7:57further from where we've been, right and not just okay, like you know,
- 8:01I could have been an artist and now an AI is a competing artist,
- 8:03but you want AI that can help us come up with ideas and solve
- 8:05problems that we just couldn't before. And so what does that world look like?
- 8:09And you know, if your post scarcity world but people don't have to
- 8:11work to survive, you know what set of people? Because people I identify
- 8:16themselves, you know, your whole identity is around your work. You identify
- 8:18yourself by your job, yes, exactly, And so what will happen then?
- 8:22And what does that look like? And so I don't come with an
- 8:24answer to this question of exactly what the balance will be like. I think
- 8:28there will be fundamental changes and how we even relate to work and to meaning
- 8:35that will happen and may result in a landscape that just looks very different.
- 8:37That the answer to that question is, you know, if you're a hunter
- 8:41gatherer and someone's like, you know, what's going to happen to our hunter
- 8:43gatherer job post agriculture of revolution, it's just a weird question, right,
- 8:46It's like the framework changes on you. And so that's that's not a cop
- 8:50out, right. I think that it might be the case that actually many
- 8:52more jobs go away than get created, and there's a lot of chaos and
- 8:54turmoil, but I think we got to be ahead of it. And the
- 8:58more that we can predict it, the more that we can greet answers.
- 9:00And we have teams that try, right, But I think that we're just
- 9:03getting started and we need help. Well, it'll change our economic models.
- 9:05Okay. I'm a clear free market guy. I liberated and I helped liberate
- 9:11the Israeli economy to make it a sort of a technological powerhouse. But that's
- 9:15because of free markets, and free markets means open competition. And it's fine,
- 9:18but you stop at the monopolies and monopolies edge. Okay, well you
- 9:22do that. I had a conversation with one of your colleagues, Peter Tail,
- 9:24and he said to me, oh, it's all scale advantages, it's
- 9:28all monopolies. I said, well, yeah, I believe that, but
- 9:31I think we have to stop it at a certain point because we don't want
- 9:33it to press competition. Okay. Well, Ai is producing you know these
- 9:39this wall and you have these trillion dollar companies that are produced to one overnight,
- 9:45okay, and they concentrate enormous wealth and power with smaller and smaller number
- 9:48of people. Okay, and the question is what do you do about that
- 9:54monopoly power? What do you do about competition? And if you are going
- 9:58to if you are going to cannibalize a lot more jobs than you create,
- 10:01then we have to change the structure of our economic policies and our political policies
- 10:07to take care of the people who are not going to find jobs. We're
- 10:11not going to contribute added value to the economy. We have to make sure
- 10:13that they have a living, a decent one, and they have all the
- 10:16services. Will probably have the money to do that, but it requires a
- 10:20challenging model, certainly for a free market guy, a free market disciple like
- 10:24me. And that's coming very fast. It's not going to come slowly,
- 10:28and we have time to adjust. I like how you challenge the question what's
- 10:31going to happen? I like to continue on that thing because I think if
- 10:35we asked this very passive kind of question, what's going to happen to us,
- 10:39let's just sit here and eat popcorn and wait for the future to happen,
- 10:43then we're steading straight for the curse. I think this is a sort
- 10:46of very passive approach which I think is just gonna you know, We've done
- 10:50this experiment before when a new species showed up on the planet that was smarter
- 10:54than all the other ones, and what happened was then the underthal automentics think,
- 10:58if we just very passively go into this, I think it's very likely
- 11:01humans will go extinct. Also, I think that's and I think that's the
- 11:05wrong attitude. Even in economics in a country, you don't just sit back
- 11:09and wait to see what happens and get child labor and the super monopoly of
- 11:15doom. No, you ask yourself what do you want to happen, and
- 11:18then you put in place institutions, you ban child labor, you put an
- 11:22anti trust. And in this case, I think the analogous question is how
- 11:24do we make sure that with this ever more powerful tech, it's we who
- 11:30control the AI rather than the other way around. Right, So I was
- 11:33honored that you had this book. If this book still hasn't put you to
- 11:37sleep, because this is a technical nerd paper I wrote with this one's written
- 11:39with technological approach to how we can control machines that are even smarter than us
- 11:45by actually having other AIS formally prove that the I is safe. And the
- 11:48reason why I'm so excited about the proving part is, you know, the
- 11:52only way you can trust something much smarter than you to still do what you
- 11:56want is if you can prove it, Because no one, how clever it
- 12:00is, it can never do what's provably impossible, and it turns out it's
- 12:03super It's much harder to come up with proofs about math or about what a
- 12:07program is going to do than it is to check that the proof is correct.
- 12:11You can write a three hundred line computer program which will check any proof
- 12:16claiming anything about anything else. We can understand that if we force AI to
- 12:20prove things to ourselves, to us humans that's going to meet our specifications,
- 12:26then we actually have a reason a way we can control things that are smarter
- 12:30than us. How do you know? How do you know that the proof
- 12:33is not disputable? That's the beauty of mathematics. You can actually check even
- 12:37if it's a brilliant proof, rather than I couldn't come up with myself.
- 12:41I can just see I just plug this into this and this, Yeah,
- 12:45you know it checks out. And there's a big science in doing this with
- 12:48proving things about programs for cybersecurity because companies are so fed up with losing millions
- 12:54of dollars by begetting hacked all the time because yet another bug was found and
- 13:00or a shell or whatever. That there's been years of investment. Greg and
- 13:03I had a fun conversation actually just before we went on stage here about how
- 13:07this field of trying to prove that things are safe is still in the stone
- 13:11age and there's pre large language model phase where it's most the humans trying to
- 13:16make the proofs. I think it's ripe for a revolution where the kind of
- 13:18technology that Open Eyes building can totally turbocharge our ability to prove things about the
- 13:24code. And I think there's a bigger picture too, because in my mind,
- 13:28if you think about cybersecurity, it's always a cat and mouse game.
- 13:31You have attackers, you have defenders. Each one's leveling up defeating the other.
- 13:35Is there ever going to be a time when the defenders totally win?
- 13:37Is there going to be a time when the attackers totally win? And I
- 13:41think with AI that balance can change. And I think that formal verifications an
- 13:43example where maybe you can have defenders just win once and for all. And
- 13:48I think there's a lot of asterisks there. I think it's definitely a maybe,
- 13:50But I think that at least at a technical level, formal verification has
- 13:54been this idea of if you could mathematically prove these systems are safe and good
- 13:58and that you don't have bugs, and you're linings, colonel, then all
- 14:01these bugs we've seen we were talking about heart bleed and shell shock and all
- 14:03these these bugs from the past ten years, those would be solved, those
- 14:07would go away. You would know there'd be no future one of those.
- 14:09Now you need to be very careful because you need to make sure that your
- 14:11undergoing machine model is like actually correct in a bunch of details like that.
- 14:16But it's just interesting to think that these fundamental things we believe about how security
- 14:20works might just be up it. And we've never had an opportunity for this.
- 14:22That will give us a lot of free time exactly. And it's worth
- 14:26adding for the nerds listening to this to like the code. You know,
- 14:28normally, debugging, all that ever does is is all it can never accomplish
- 14:35is proved that there is something wrong. If you don't find any bugs,
- 14:37is there one more? What when you prove it? When it's what's called
- 14:43formal verification, As Greg said, that means guaranteed you'll seal the deal.
- 14:48Seal the deal, all right. That assumes, by the way, that
- 14:52mathematics is, you know, that's it. It's the law of the universe.
- 14:56It's not going to change. You're not going to get alien mathematics.
- 15:00You don't need to assume that. Actually, well you're sort of getting the
- 15:01girls incompleteness theorem and things like that. That has comes in a big way
- 15:05when you're dealing with infinities of various kinds. All the computers, even Gregg's
- 15:09very biggest servers, it's all finite. I would say, you still got
- 15:13to watch out for the alien mathematics. But you can totally formalize what it
- 15:16means that it's impossible to hack into his laptop, and if you have a
- 15:20rigorous proof, I think that's heals the deal. So I think that beyond
- 15:24these, you know, these enormous questions that you raise, I think from
- 15:28me, the immediate problem is to fashion a national policy, which I tend
- 15:33to announce in a few months, and you guys are simulated me. I
- 15:37have to say this visit, but you sort of think, Okay, what
- 15:41is it that you what is it that you were trying to achieve. You're
- 15:43trying to better all the systems transportation, health, education, agriculture, production,
- 15:50everything for government, for the private sector, for philanthropy, for academia
- 15:56and so on. And what is the role of the government in this?
- 15:58And you know, various kind trees are seeking solutions to this. What do
- 16:02you do? What kind of instruments do you build? I think the larger
- 16:04question is you still have the monopolization of AI power in small concentrations because of
- 16:11what you said before, Elon, you said, basically, it's still big.
- 16:15You know, you need the big data, you need the big you
- 16:18know, the big computational power, you need the talent for creating the algorithms,
- 16:22and that's concentrated in a few countries. We have another test, not
- 16:26only to make sure that we take care of ourselves, but how we have
- 16:30these benefits percolate to you know, the rest the scientific and technological have nots.
- 16:36And I think that's that's another real issue. But so far, you
- 16:38know the advances that we've made, at least in Israel, I don't know
- 16:42anything from disconquy. Remember that you used to have something like that, And
- 16:47I don't know that a drug, the camera pill that goes into your intestine
- 16:51or any other thing that you have, from ICQ to cherry tomatoes that benefits
- 16:55everybody. Drip irogation, okay, in Ai, it seems to me that
- 16:59you're gonna have concentration of power that will create a bigger and bigger distance between
- 17:04the haves and the have nots. And that's another thing that causes tremendous instability
- 17:10in our world. And I don't know if you have an idea how you
- 17:12overcome that. Well, first of all, I want to say just on
- 17:15the talent density front, we have a number of Israeli engineers, scientist managers
- 17:21and they are top notch, no question. We have a manager who runs
- 17:23one of our core teams who is ex Special Forces and there's nothing that phases
- 17:27him. So I think there's something about the Israeli way that I think is
- 17:32actually very conducive to this field. And I think that it is really important
- 17:36to counteract this rich, get richer phenomenon, at if it comes at the
- 17:40expense of everyone else. Right, I think that there's a the world we
- 17:42should shoot for is one where all the boats are rising, and I think
- 17:45that there will be some sort of inequities in the landscape, and I think
- 17:48that's something to address, and that's something that I think that leaders such as
- 17:52yourself, I think need to be very cognizant about. You know, I
- 17:53think that we've talked about UBI like opening actually has run. I think the
- 17:56world's most comprehensive UBI. Something people talk about universal basic income, the idea
- 18:03of just the government just distributes money, right, that's just what it does.
- 18:04If most people are not working, producing, you know, dollars themselves,
- 18:10and there's a world of plenty. Is that a mechanism that can work?
- 18:12Maybe it can, maybe it can't. There's a lot of assumptions that
- 18:15would go into a world where it works. It's clearly I think also has
- 18:18a lot of downsides to it. But I think that we need to have
- 18:21creative solutions because again, I think that just like defense versus offense might fundamentally
- 18:26change economic production and what it takes to actually build even a stable society I
- 18:30think is going to fundamentally change. Well, Ellen, you said when I
- 18:34asked you this question one of our nighttime conversations. I asked you, well,
- 18:37what are you gonna do when people don't have jobs and we shell out
- 18:41money for them and you said. I think you said, oh, what's
- 18:45bad and living in paradise? Right, I think you said that, Yeah,
- 18:48I mean it's I mean this is a question of like, you know,
- 18:52the concept of heaven. Now, in heaven, I don't think you
- 18:55need to work in heaven. Haven't read that anywhere, So they're not laughing,
- 19:00you know if you want so, you know, the very positive scenario
- 19:04of AI is actually in a lot of ways the description of heaven in that
- 19:10really nobody would need to work. I wouldn't even quote universal basic income.
- 19:12I'd say it's probably universal high income. I'm describing the best case scenario here,
- 19:17so I'm not saying this is definitely what occurred. There's a range of
- 19:19scenarios from very negative to very positive. Very positive scenario is basically sounds like
- 19:25heaven. You can have whatever you want, you don't need to work,
- 19:27you have no obligations. Any illness you have can be cured. And when
- 19:32do we die? Well, that's a good question. I think it'll be
- 19:33a choice. I think it probably ends up being somewhat of a choice.
- 19:36So you want this world, well, I'm not saying I don't know.
- 19:40There's some there's a sort of a philosophical debate is the concept of heaven as
- 19:44it is normally described. Actually, what do you want? I mean,
- 19:47do you want to be in a future or world where you know the in
- 19:51the AI sense that a I could do everything better than you by far?
- 19:55That's that's because you know you have, like man, search for meaning questions
- 20:00thing good work and what meaning if you if, like I said, if
- 20:03I can do everything better than you do, we live a life of hedonism.
- 20:07I don't know, it's hard to say, but that is where things
- 20:11ahead. In a positive scenario is that there would be no scarcity of goods
- 20:15and services. The robots and computers can make as much as much of whatever
- 20:18you want, for as many people as you want, with really no limitation.
- 20:22Any scarcity we have would be artificial, meaning like if you define that
- 20:26in particular artwork done by a human is unique and special, then it's artificial
- 20:32scarcity. But there will be no actual scarcity unless we define it arbitrarily,
- 20:37define something to be scarce. So I think for a lot of people that
- 20:41is a good, good future. I might be personally a bit frustrated because
- 20:45I'm like, well, what am I supposed to do? Now? You'll
- 20:47think of think of something. I think that this is a very interesting set
- 20:51of challenges. What would we do if people have no jobs? But I
- 20:53think it's important to remember that we're not automatically going to end up in this
- 20:59situation in the way we're thinking about it now. We could also, I
- 21:02think, very likely end up in a situation where people have no jobs because
- 21:06there are no people anymore, where we literally go extinct. You know,
- 21:08if we had a statement cut that came out in May, right that I
- 21:12think Sam Olmen and you both signed right saying and ours left under Lyon came
- 21:17out with it a couple of days ago saying we have to take seriously human
- 21:19extinction. And if this sounds like very crazy science fiction, you know we
- 21:23were joking. But just a few years ago all your success sounds like science
- 21:27fiction. Two and you said that we don't have a lot of time.
- 21:30These are things that could happen relatively soon. And there's how it's very important
- 21:36to me, because I want the good future, to think about how we
- 21:40steer away from those sort of scenarios. One way in which we could end
- 21:42up and this kind of bad future is pretty obvious. The idea that we
- 21:48can lose control to something more intelligent is not new at all. That Alan
- 21:52Turing himself said this in the fifties. That's kind of the natural thing to
- 21:56expect. That's what always happened on our planet before. When a news more
- 22:00speechies came in, it took control over the older ones, and then you
- 22:03know, bye bye and Neanderthals by by mammoths whatever. More concretely, I
- 22:07think, even though Hollywood is full of scenarios where someone somehow loses control of
- 22:14AI and it takes over, there are more sneaky ways in which we could
- 22:18end up in this sort of bad state, even more willingly. So for
- 22:21example, right now, I'm a big fan of the free market too,
- 22:25you know, But it's the fact that if people are competing against other people,
- 22:30they will often seed control voluntarily at the machines to get an edge on
- 22:33the other guys. So companies who replace workers with machines out compete companies who
- 22:38don't. Armies who seed control to machines out compete armies who don't. Once
- 22:44we have really powerful any of that, that's better at running companies and countries
- 22:48and humans, you know, than countries that replaced their prime ministers by AI
- 22:52might outcompete others, and then we end up in this future where all these
- 22:56things are happening, but it's not our future anymore, and we're like,
- 22:59wait a minute, where did we go along wrong? Here? It was
- 23:02supposed to be for us. But that's the point, you know, forgiving
- 23:04for borrowing a page from your book, literally a page from your book,
- 23:08I'm confessing I'm a speciest Okay, Okay, So I'm for the human species.
- 23:15Okay. We can talk about other evolutions and you know, machine launched
- 23:18intelligence and so on, but I'm you know, I'm for you know,
- 23:22in the Jewish tradition, there's a saying, how do we translate this?
- 23:26The impoverished of your own city, of your own town, proceed the impoverished
- 23:30of other towns. So the human species, as far as I'm concerned,
- 23:33is something that I'm vitally interested in maintaining. And I'll tell you that the
- 23:37problem we have is not merely extinction, which I hope you can, maybe
- 23:41you can extemporaries just elaborate on. But here's something else. Even if we
- 23:47don't go extinct, how do we define ourselves? You talked about that,
- 23:51Greg, Okay, so we defined ourselves. We had this myth in the
- 23:53Bible, we had heaven, you know, paradise you can just pick off
- 23:59the trees, you know, pick off the fruit from the trees. You'd
- 24:00have to do nothing, and then the serpent comes and messes things up,
- 24:06and then we're condemned to toil for our labors. Life is a struggle.
- 24:10It's defined as a struggle to define all the time, as a struggle where
- 24:14you're competing with the forces of nature, or with other human beings or with
- 24:17animals, and you constantly better your position. This is how the human race
- 24:22has defined itself, and our self definition is based on that, both as
- 24:25individuals, as nations, as humanity as a whole. Now that could be
- 24:30challenged, and it is challenged. So it's both our self definition throughout human
- 24:34history and evolution that is being challenged, and also the question of our continued
- 24:40existence, which you know you can please explain why you think we're in danger
- 24:44of extension. Well, well, I was gonna say. I mean,
- 24:45I think this whole arc in my mind is all about paradigm shift, right,
- 24:49And I think that even the question of what would that heaven push agi
- 24:55positive future look like? I think even that is hard for us to imagine
- 24:57what the true upside could be because it's not just material abundance. It's not
- 25:02just we all get nice cars or something hopefully I'll tell us, but also
- 25:06that everyone gets a great education, right, you know, everyone has that
- 25:08story of that one teacher that they had who paid attention to them and inspire
- 25:11them on a specific subject. Imagine if you had that teacher for anything you
- 25:15wanted constantly, and just how much better if people would we be? How
- 25:18much better would we relate to others? Like that is just one example of
- 25:22the kinds of upsides that are possible. And I think the question of well
- 25:26what does it mean to be a human? You know, if you back
- 25:27to how do you predict what's going to come next? Actually the thinker who
- 25:32I think had the best foresight about how the AI revolution was going to play
- 25:36out is actually Ray Kurtzwile you know he yeah, and his book Singularity is
- 25:41near gets like a lot of shit. I think that people that you know,
- 25:44kind of assume it is going to be this almost like just sort of
- 25:45religious text, but instead it's a very dry analytical text. And he just
- 25:48looks at the compute curves and he says this is the fundamental unlock or of
- 25:52intelligence. Everyone thought that was crazy, and now it's basically true. It's
- 25:56basically common wisdom. And part of what he says is, look, what's
- 25:59going to happen is in twenty thirties. First of all, he says,
- 26:00AGI twenty twenty nine. Yeah, I keep telling people it seems to be
- 26:03almost exactly right. It's spooky. It's spooky. Twenty thirties is when the
- 26:07merge happens. So we've got neurallink coming, and you know, maybe other
- 26:11systems like that, And what does it mean once you actually are kind of
- 26:15merging with an intelligence. Well, neuralalink is necessarily moves slower than AI because
- 26:21when when have you put a device in a human? You have to be
- 26:22incredibly careful. So I think it's not clear to me that the neuralink will
- 26:26be ready before a GI. I think AGI is probably going to happen first,
- 26:30but you know, we'll have the sort of AGI singularity, you know,
- 26:34so as digital superintelligence is called like a singularity, like a black hole,
- 26:38because just like with a black hole, is difficult to predict what happens
- 26:41after you pass the event. Arison of black hole, and we are currently
- 26:45so you know, circling the event horizon of the black hole, that is
- 26:49at digital superintelligence, the event horizon. So I bet part of the reason
- 26:55for neurallink, although initially we're very helpful to people who have brain or spine
- 26:59injuries, just doing basic stuff like enabling people who are tetraplegics or like a
- 27:03Stephen Hawking to communicate actually even faster than I'm communicating with a fully functional body.
- 27:10So and ultimately to improve the bandwidth between the cortex and your AI version
- 27:18of yourself. In fact, I think a lot of people perhaps don't quite
- 27:21realize that they're already a syebalk. So you've got your lymic system, your
- 27:25sort of basic drives, your cortex, which is the thinking and planning,
- 27:29and then you have tertiary layer, which is your computers, your devices,
- 27:30your phones, laptops, all the servers that exist, the applications. And
- 27:36in fact, I think probably a lot of people have found that if you
- 27:40leave your cell phone, take it away, if you get if you forget
- 27:42your cell phone, it's like missing Limb syndrome. You know, you've like
- 27:47read that thing, go Losing your cell phone is like missing Lin syndrome.
- 27:49So, because it is your cell phone is extension extension of yourself, the
- 27:53limitation is badwidth. So you the rate which you can input or i should
- 27:59say output in nation into your phone or computer is very slow. So the
- 28:03phone, it's really just the speed of your thumb movements, and with you
- 28:07know, best case scenario, you're a speed typist on a keyboard. But
- 28:11even that data rate is very slow, which we're talking about tens, maybe
- 28:15hundreds of bits per second, whereas a computer can communicate in trillions of bits
- 28:19per second. So so the and this is admittedly somewhat of a you know,
- 28:25hail Mary shot or whatever lung shot, is that if you can improve
- 28:27the bad with between your cortex and the your digital tertiary self, then you
- 28:33can achieve better cohesion between what humans want and what AI does. At least
- 28:38that's one theory. I'm not saying this is a short thing. It's just
- 28:41one potential iron in the fire. If ultimately, you know, one hundreds
- 28:45of millions or billions people get a high bound with interface to their digital tertiary
- 28:51self, their AI self effectively, then that that seems like that probably leads
- 28:56to a better future for humanity. So that's this is I'm getting somewhat esoteric.
- 29:00Hopefully some of this is making sense, and like I said, it's
- 29:03a long shot. But you know, what I find interesting is that I've
- 29:07I've not found any human who wishes to delete either their cortex or their limits
- 29:11system. I probably I suspect nobody in this room wants to do that.
- 29:14It's a role or their cell phone. Well, now I've met people who
- 29:18want to who don't use a cell phone. It's rare. Okay, Well,
- 29:21I confess for years I avoided this, and I avoided it. I
- 29:25didn't even have Not only did I not have a cell phone within my immediate
- 29:30radius, I didn't have a television set. My phones were thirty five year
- 29:34old phones because I was Prime Minister Visual and I knew what this means.
- 29:38Okay, I mean maybe your audience doesn't know, but we knew. Now,
- 29:44having spent some time in the opposition, I lapsed into the use of
- 29:48the cell phone, and I find it very hard to dissociate from it.
- 29:51For the reasons that you said. It's become an extension of, you know,
- 29:53a repository of memory, the ability to get information very fast, which
- 29:59you say correctly, is very slow, but compared to what it was before.
- 30:03Remember you had research assistance, have to go to libraries, things like
- 30:07that. Where is that that's gone? But this will be seen as very
- 30:11vastly primitive compared to what you're talking about. Yeah, I'll just add something
- 30:15is that to max? But the I mean, it's it's sort of a
- 30:18funny thing like if you assume, like a best case scenario, imagine if
- 30:21if you're the AI and you're trying to you just want the human to tell
- 30:25you what it wants, just please spit it out. But it's speaking so
- 30:30slowly like a tree. Okay, Like trees communicate, Okay, they if
- 30:34you watch a tree, like a you know, sped up a version of
- 30:37a tree growing, it's actually communicating. It's communicating with the soil. It's
- 30:41trying to find the sunlight. You know, it's reacting to other trees and
- 30:45that kind of thing very slowly. But from a tree standpoint, it's you
- 30:49know, not that slow. So so what I'm saying is we don't want
- 30:52to be a tree. That's that's the idea behind a high band with the
- 30:56neural interface is just even when the AI it desperately wants to do good,
- 31:00good things for us that we can actually communicate several orders of attitude fast,
- 31:04and we currently can. I love that you mentioned the trees there, because
- 31:07if anyone is still struggling to understand why it's so likely that we could get
- 31:11wiped out by AI, you know, as superintelligent AI, we are like
- 31:17trees. They are as much faster than us, and they're thinking than we
- 31:22are. The trees. So if some trees in the rainforest are a little
- 31:23bit worried that some humans are going to come chop them down, you know,
- 31:27and they're like, Oh, don't worry, We're so smart, we'll
- 31:30stop those humans. Good luck with that, right. I love how you
- 31:33went philosophical here and talked about what it means to be human, and I
- 31:37wanted to follow up on that, and but before that, maybe just continue
- 31:40that. Okay, So, how you're assuming that the danger of human extinction
- 31:45is that you have machines, supermachines, superintelligent machines that outpass humans by orders
- 31:51and orders of magnitude who will not necessarily value the continued human existence as we
- 31:57know it, and basically program is out. That's basically what you're saying,
- 32:01so, if we were to be so dumb as to create the entities that
- 32:07are much more powerful than us that don't share our goals, yeah, that's
- 32:09a really bad idea. I mean, in Israel, I think you understand
- 32:13really well that if you have a bunch of other beings who are intelligent and
- 32:17don't share your values, you know, it can go really badly, right,
- 32:22and let's not make that mistake by giving too much power to machines don't
- 32:25share our values. But of course we can tackle that in various ways.
- 32:30So coming back to what can we concretely do, I just want to say
- 32:34one thing about the philosophical point about being human, just for myself. One
- 32:37of the things that I really cherish the most about being human is the agency
- 32:42that I can actually make choices and make a difference. And one of the
- 32:45most beautiful things about what you were all doing with technology is giving us more
- 32:51agency. Back in the Middle Ages, we had a life expectancy of freaking
- 32:54thirty years and knowing that we might starve to death next year because of the
- 32:59weather. There, you know what kind of it's so much more inspiring now
- 33:02that we're becoming more of the captain of our own ship with technology able to
- 33:06actually have more agency as a species. So I say, let's use that
- 33:08agency to create a wonderful future, not to throw it away. And three
- 33:13things I wanted to just suggest for concrete action items we can do here.
- 33:16I'll say a little more about each of them. One has to do with
- 33:20pausing risky stuff, one has to do with controlling the machines, and one
- 33:23has to do with inspiration for the future. So for the controlling, we
- 33:29already talked quite a lot about the importance of staying in control over these machines,
- 33:32so I don't need to doell on it anymore. But we are I
- 33:37think it's saying things like, oh, what is going to happen to us
- 33:40bring out the popcorn. That's too passive for me. Let's celebrate our agency
- 33:44and ask ourselves not what we think will happen, but what we want to
- 33:47happen. And clearly we want to control these machines we're building them. Second
- 33:52thing, so, I, you know, agree with Gregg on many things,
- 33:57and I greatly respect your work. One thing where we have a friendly
- 34:00disagreement is you know, I signed this pause letter saying I think we should
- 34:04pause the riskiest things, and you don't. I think that it would be
- 34:07a good strategy for us to emulate what biotech does and just have clear safety
- 34:12standards. You know, if you want to release a new drug, you
- 34:14can't just sell it in the supermarket. You have to do a clinical trial,
- 34:17persuade some experts somehow that this is safe. And I would like to
- 34:21see really high stakes, very powerful systems, some sort of system like this
- 34:25with standards, and then the companies have and it's on them to, you
- 34:30know, prove that they're safe before they get released it. Who does the
- 34:31standards? Well, and we've solved this, It's been solved in Israel.
- 34:37It's been solved in the US for biotech, not for biotech. But here,
- 34:40you know, it's a's a do you want it? Regulators? Who
- 34:44do you want it? Legislatures? I mean, it's not the only choice,
- 34:46but you know, it's a pretty pretty clear dichotomy. I don't think
- 34:51we need to reinvent this wheel. The people who decide whether a drug gets
- 34:53approved in Israel is not people in parliament in the Kinnessets, right, it's
- 34:58Israeli scientists, but the government involved in approving them. Exactly we can emulate
- 35:02that, and Elon can tell us all about how we deal with the cars.
- 35:06I don't want to dwell on, and I just think this is not
- 35:08rocket science. We can put these standards in place and then we can continue
- 35:14doing all sorts of wonderful stuff with a tech. Some stuff will wait a
- 35:16little longer for but it'll be worth the wait because it'll be safe. The
- 35:21last thing I just wanted to say is I think for us to really seize
- 35:25this agency and work together, not just between companies but also across borders,
- 35:30we really need a shared positive vision. And this is something I really appreciate
- 35:36so much about You, Elon have the guts more than most to talk about
- 35:38like really audacious positive visions for the future. What is it that makes people
- 35:45collaborate and put little squabbles aside. It's always a shared positive vision where people
- 35:51realize that if we collaborate, we'll all be better off. You know,
- 35:53technology is not a zero some game, right. You can take countries like
- 36:00Sweden and Denmark that had been killing each other for centuries and flat GDP,
- 36:06you know, and then technology came along and they both got dramatically better off.
- 36:09It's so obvious that the technology that you're building. You're building you know,
- 36:14can make all humans just spectacularly better off with AI, and not just
- 36:19on this planet. I like the list before we started you had there about
- 36:22how it can revolutionize healthcare and so many other things. And I would add
- 36:25to that, you know, why limit ourselves to this planet when there's this
- 36:29beautiful universe where life can flourish for billions of years. If the more we
- 36:32can can just appreciate how huge the upside is if we do this right,
- 36:37you know, the more incentive we will have to actually be a little patient
- 36:43where we need to be a little bit patient, make everything safe and therefore
- 36:46get this wonderful future. Well, maybe we're sort of lagging behind in our
- 36:52social and political development. This is like having nuclear technology and the Stone Age,
- 36:57what do you do with it? Which I think is you know,
- 37:00because more That's the thing that I talked about in terms of the pace of
- 37:02development, pacing basically what solutions we need to put in place to maximize the
- 37:07benefits and limits the risks. I think we're there. I think we should
- 37:12have a meeting of minds. You were in you were in the Senate the
- 37:15other day. I presume you were talking about this. I mean, yeah,
- 37:17you don't have to divulge what you can divulge, but divulge would you
- 37:22can? Well, a lot of people in the meeting, so I don't
- 37:23think it was secret. It was just a discussion on AI regulation. And
- 37:28actually Sam Often from open I was there and a number of eye leaders were
- 37:31were there. And I think generally it would be a good idea to have
- 37:36some kind of AI regulatory agency and start off with a team that gathers insight
- 37:43to get a maximum understanding. Then you have some proposed rulemaking, and then
- 37:47eventually you have regulations that are put in place. And this is something we
- 37:51have for everything that is potential danger to the public. So if it is
- 37:53you know, if we're in drugs in drug administration, we got aircraft with
- 37:58fa and rockets. You know, there's ever anything that is a danger to
- 38:01the public. Over time, we have learned that often the hard way,
- 38:06after many people have died, to have a regulatory agency to protect public safety.
- 38:12I'm not someone who thinks that regulations some panacea where it's only good.
- 38:15Of course, there are some downsides to regulation and that things move a bit
- 38:19slower, and sometimes you get regulatory capture and that kind of thing. But
- 38:22but on balance, I think the public would not want to get rid of
- 38:28most regulatory agencies. And you can think of it also as like the regulatory
- 38:32agency being like a referee. You know, what sports game doesn't have a
- 38:36referee? You need someone to make sure that that people are playing fairly,
- 38:40not breaking the rules. And that's why basically every sport has a referee of
- 38:45one kind or another. So that's the rationale for AI safety. And I've
- 38:50been pushing this all around the world, and when I was in China a
- 38:52few months ago meeting with some of the senior leadership, that my primary topic
- 38:57was AI safety and regulation and they, after we had a long discussion,
- 39:01agreed that this merit to AI regulation and immediately took action in this regard.
- 39:07So so sometimes it will get this comment of like, well, if the
- 39:12West does AI regulation surely, then what about what if China doesn't and then
- 39:16leaves ahead. And I think they are also taking it very seriously, because
- 39:21you know the opposite of what of a moral constraints you program into the system?
- 39:24I mean, Greg, I don't know what you what are your thoughts
- 39:27on this? Yeah, I mean I think again it's just like this technology
- 39:30is almost backwards from how you'd expect it to work. Like I think that
- 39:32a lot of people talk about the paper clips problem of if you think of
- 39:36that as if we literally program into a machine make as many paper clips as
- 39:39possible, and it gets really smart, and it's like, well, there's
- 39:42all these houses and factories and other things, they're not producing paper clips.
- 39:45They're all going to be just paper clip production. Now, all these humans
- 39:47that are in the way paper clip would be a better arrangement of their atoms.
- 39:51And that's just not the technology path we actually seem to be on.
- 39:54You look at GPT three, and it is a system that gets the nuance,
- 39:58It gets the common sense. It has other problems, right, it
- 40:00makes mistakes that no human ever would like kind of loses this chain of thought
- 40:05and says all these weird things and sometimes make things up like we have real
- 40:07problems we have to encounter. But I think that for me, that the
- 40:10hard thing that I think gets lost in some of the conversations is the nuance
- 40:15right of really being coupled to what's the technology we actually see and particularly how
- 40:19does it depart from our intuitions about where we thought it would go. I
- 40:21actually think it's even interesting. You know, Max mentioned the pause letter.
- 40:23The pause letter, one of the key parts of it was to not train
- 40:27GPD five for the next six months, and we looked at that and we're
- 40:30like, well, we're not training GPT five for the next six months anyway.
- 40:34And so you know, it's just like again if you kind of miss
- 40:36the sort of nuances of what's going on at a mechanical level. And some
- 40:39of this does require getting like really in the weeds and coming and talking to
- 40:44us and also opening up and showing kind of in progress work. And I
- 40:46think that's something that will be very important as you think about moving to these
- 40:51very powerful systems. And I also think there's another blessing and curse of how
- 40:54the technology is playing out, where we talk about digital superintelligence and we also
- 40:59talk about chat. These are very different things, but somehow there's going to
- 41:02be a smooth continuing between them. And so I think that the blessing is
- 41:07that we see a little bit into the future. We have a little taste
- 41:08of a system that you know, I talked about a personalized tutor for everyone.
- 41:13You kind of have it now. It's not a perfect tutor. It's
- 41:15got a lot of problems, but like you know, you can go use
- 41:17shat GPT for free to ask about anything and it'll give you something. Sometimes
- 41:21it's actually be pretty insightful. Well fair enough, I'll withdraw the seven and
- 41:25a half, but but you'll get there. You'll get to a ten.
- 41:28We will, we will, we will. Definitely, that's right, And
- 41:30I think it's great for people to see it while we can still laugh about
- 41:34it. Right. I think that when it starts coming up with the new
- 41:36ideas, you type in some problem you're having at home, trying to figure
- 41:38out how to do something, and it just comes back with, oh,
- 41:40you should say this to this person, and you should do that, you
- 41:43should you know, here's say you should revenge your schedule. And it's just
- 41:45like great ideas, Like that's gonna feel so different. And then one day,
- 41:49when we're actually having a system that can actually just autonomously go off and
- 41:52do a bunch of research and say, here's this crazy chemical formula, like
- 41:55please mix them together in these ways. You want to make sure that thing
- 42:00trustworthy right before we start mixing those chemicals. And so I think that this
- 42:02question of how do we separate out the sort of diffusion of today's AI technology
- 42:07and application and really, you know, all the debates that we're having,
- 42:10let those happen, open source technologies like everyone's building. We should not squelch
- 42:15those, we should actually promote those. But I think that also looking ahead,
- 42:19being ahead of the game here and saying there is going to be a
- 42:22point and it's where we're hitting that wall, where we're going to be building
- 42:24the most massive machines that humans have ever built. Like Youan talks about these
- 42:29massive rows of data centers with all these computers, like like it's one of
- 42:32those things where you kind of have to see it to really feel it.
- 42:36Like I've walked through some of these data center halls and you just get a
- 42:38sense of the scale of what's being built. And it's very different when it's
- 42:42abstractly just like you're looking at, oh is this many GPUs and you know,
- 42:45looking at numbers, it's like you just realize the mechanical force that is
- 42:47behind what you're building for cognitive intelligence. And I think that kind of thing
- 42:52we need international answers for. I fully agree with you. I think,
- 42:57Chris, of all you know, with all due respect of the pause button,
- 43:00we ain't going to get it. It's not going to happen. I
- 43:02think you can't put the genie back into the bottle, and I'm not sure
- 43:06you can slow it down. The only thing you can do is just to
- 43:08accelerate our own efforts. And I think you're right. It has to be
- 43:12international. I think there. I think you start with a like minded and
- 43:15like valued states. Start with that. And frankly, I think you know,
- 43:19obviously, you know what AI stands for. It stands for America and
- 43:21Israel. Obviously, I'm just plugging my own country. But it's a it's
- 43:25not an empty plug, because I think that there's a concentration of talent an
- 43:30Israel that makes it more than a mouse compared to the American elephant. It's
- 43:32more than that. It's a very nimble mammal, very fast compact, and
- 43:37it's it's also got this feed of military AI which moves very fast and takes
- 43:45a very large part of the population. The talents there screens it and it
- 43:49trains it very quickly. So I think that you start with a like minded
- 43:52states, you definitely should have a very robust conversation. First of all,
- 43:58decide among us what is something there are things that we wouldn't want to share,
- 44:02and it's obvious related to our security. There are standards that we have,
- 44:07ethical standards and other regulations that we have to achieve quickly among between industry
- 44:12and governments quickly. And then I think we have to conduct a robust discussion
- 44:16with the other powers of the world based on their self interest, as you
- 44:22began to do. And I think that's a pioneering work, and I think
- 44:24we have a shot maybe at getting to some degree of control over our future,
- 44:30which could be amazing. You know, I'm not sure I want to
- 44:34live in heaven. It could be boring. I don't mean the boring company.
- 44:37I mean it could be boring, But I think we're headed. I'd
- 44:39much rather have a boring heaven than an interesting hell. So here at Tesla,
- 44:45they have a different name for pause button. They call it the break.
- 44:49And when we launched this pause letter, right, I personally didn't think
- 44:53that there was immediately going to cause a pause for me. The real purpose
- 44:57of it was the mainstream the conversation about these issues, which really did happen.
- 45:01And you know, I really appreciate you and Sam and your colleagues for
- 45:06saying very openly that there may come a time when you will want to pause
- 45:09certain things if you meet certain criteria. Right now, if Elon says that
- 45:15may come a time when he's going to slow down his Tesla, I would
- 45:19feel I would trust that more if I knew that Tesla actually had breaks in
- 45:22it, so that they had like a mechanism by which you could actually slow
- 45:25it down. So this is something I'm very curious to actually to hear it
- 45:29from you about if what criteria and would you say that you all have can
- 45:35can you say it in the future, say it already now, Like what
- 45:37are some things which would make you want to pause? And and then won't
- 45:39it be difficult with the actual mechanism, like to resist commercial pressures to continue
- 45:45even if you and Sam want to pause. Well, I actually kind of
- 45:47agree with both of you right that, I think that my picture of how
- 45:52the future is going to play out in terms of AI development is not as
- 45:55simple as oh, you're scaling models and then you see something a little bit
- 45:59weird and then you like stop all scaling and you all go home or something,
- 46:01right'. It's it's definitely not going to be that. I think that
- 46:04we need to be making maximum velocity efforts towards a good future, right,
- 46:09And I think that is something that you don't want to pause. You actually
- 46:12want to put the foot on the pedal. Now, of course, the
- 46:15question is what actions actually get you towards there, which ones are against it,
- 46:19you know, Like I think that nuance is something that I think is
- 46:21what we should be debating. But that's why I actually bounce a little bit
- 46:23off of the framing of a pause, because I think even to the point
- 46:27of GPD four, doing all this prediction work ahead of time, like if
- 46:30that prediction work was a little bit wobbly, weren't quite there, and we
- 46:32actually do this all the time, that there's like some experiment that came back
- 46:36a little bit strange, we're not really sure we understand it. We actually
- 46:37spend a lot of time to fix that. And it's not even you know,
- 46:40even if you forget about the safety reasons, and actually one of the
- 46:44reasons we do it is safety motivated. But if you even forget about that,
- 46:45you're just not going to build a good system. And so I think
- 46:47that there's a lot of places in AI where there's actually great alignment between capability
- 46:53and safety, between building something useful and something that is safe. It's not
- 46:57perfect, but I think it is actually surprising where there are divergences. Actually,
- 47:00the single biggest divergence we've seen has not been owe too much pressure to
- 47:05deploy quickly because I actually think that getting things out, Like you can see,
- 47:07the market it hates hallucinations, It hates it when the model makes something
- 47:10up. All the jokes we made about oh it doesn't give you good insights,
- 47:13the market hates that stuff, right, And actually I think it's very
- 47:15aligned with safety to fix them. But what the market actually pushes us against
- 47:20is actually when it comes into conflict with other values, for example privacy.
- 47:22Right, So that the way we launch the initial gpt APIs was that we
- 47:27said, hey, we're going to monitor everything. We're going to record everything,
- 47:29like if something sketchy comes up, we'll go and look and we'll be
- 47:31able to look back in the logs. We'll be able to see what you
- 47:34did. People hate that, right, like you know you kind of want
- 47:37that for everyone else, but for yourself you want privacy. And so how
- 47:39do you balance those two factors? And we actually see this very much in
- 47:44terms of to actually win deals to decide to be able to give companies the
- 47:47assurance that hey, we're not going to retain any of your data, will
- 47:50delete it immediately. That removes our ability to do any investigation post talk.
- 47:53And so this is actually a place where I think government can be very helpful,
- 47:55where norms can be very helpful to say, hey, even though you
- 48:00know that this is what would be you know commercially most viable, that this
- 48:04is what the rule is going to be, and everyone has to play with
- 48:06it. You don't ever race to the bottom. So I think that again,
- 48:08it's all going to be nuanced, it's all going to be I think,
- 48:12like I've just accepted that this field it's totally counterintuitive, Like everything we
- 48:15learn this is like it just would make you just like if you told yourself
- 48:20ten years ago you have said, there's no way. That sounds totally crazy,
- 48:22and somehow we have to navigate through that. Well, the only thing
- 48:25that I can add to this conversation is to invite you all to as well.
- 48:30I'd like to, in fact continue this conversation, in fact, bring
- 48:34a few more of your colleagues and a few leaders to discuss this international strategy
- 48:38for like minded states to begin with that, you know, first like minded
- 48:44states, then the world. Okay, how about that as a plan of
- 48:46action. But I think that I think that the work that you're doing is
- 48:52amazing. Nothink short of it. You know, Elon was saying, what
- 48:55is a human being? It's sort of this two legged thing ape like true,
- 49:00with a cortex and a computer and its wants, desires and a brain.
- 49:05But the brain is developing in ways that we couldn't possibly imagine, and
- 49:07it just doesn't stop. Well, I mean, from my other comments,
- 49:12like the thing that paps should provide some hope for digital not being controllable in
- 49:16a very very specific way but acting in a way that is beneficial to humans
- 49:21is that our cortex and our limc system, the cortex is actually in service
- 49:25to the limits system. So you know, the cortex, the thinking part,
- 49:29is constantly trying to make the instinctual part happy, even though it is
- 49:32much smarter than the instinctual part. And so I think there's hope there that
- 49:37digital superintelligence, even though it is much smarter than our cortex, will none
- 49:40less want to make the cortex happy and ultimately LIMICS system happy. I mean
- 49:45not to get too off color here, but the sheer amount of thinking and
- 49:49about two that people have done to have sex is a lot, but not
- 49:53sex will procreation, just for the to make the limics system happy. So
- 49:59you know, given how much you know thought has gone into getting laid essentially,
- 50:02but for the sole purpose of getting laid, not procreation, and all
- 50:06that does is make the limbic system, you know, give us block of
- 50:08joy that gives. I think that's actually suggests that there is a good future
- 50:14where even if we don't understand the digital superintelligence, just as the Olympic system
- 50:19does not under understated the cortex, it might still actually at the end of
- 50:22the day, if you're trying to make our limbic system and cortex happy,
- 50:24is that a happy note to end? I think it's a great note to
- 50:27end on. Thank you, Thank you everyone, Thank you athletes. So
- 50:30that's really amid