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You NEED To Know This About Ai... · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: We invited AI into our lives like a helpful assistant,
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Speaker 1: But what if it's quietly.
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Speaker 2: Making us worse at being human? This is how it
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Speaker 2: starts a question, a little help?
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Speaker 1: What's the harm?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 2: I asked a machine to help me write the opening
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Speaker 2: to a video about the dangers of AI. The irony
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Speaker 2: is not lost on me, okay, But that's kind of
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Speaker 2: the point, because think about the last twenty four hours
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Speaker 2: of your life. How many times did you ask AI
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Speaker 2: for something? Maybe it was to write an email for you,
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Speaker 2: or to summarize an article you didn't feel like reading,
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Speaker 2: or it helped your kid with their homework, or it
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Speaker 2: did their homework, or maybe you asked it what to
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Speaker 2: cook for dinner, or what gift to buy for your partner,
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Speaker 2: or whether you should text your X back or what
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Speaker 2: you should text your X back. We don't even really
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Speaker 2: notice anymore, because AI has just slipped into the ordinary
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Speaker 2: very quickly, mind you, because it's in our pockets, it's
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Speaker 2: in our classrooms, it's in our jobs, it's in our relationships,
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Speaker 2: and most of us welcomed it without ever asking what
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Speaker 2: we might be giving up in return. And don't get
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Speaker 2: me wrong, AI is an incredible tool. I'm not here
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Speaker 2: to tell you it's inherently evil, and I'm not telling
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Speaker 2: you to delete everything and go live off the grid
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the woods. But I am here
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Speaker 2: to tell you that I think we're starting to sleepwalk
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Speaker 2: a bit, and we're sleepwalking into dependency, into emotional entanglement,
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Speaker 2: into exploitation risks that most people.
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Speaker 1: Don't even know exist.
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Speaker 2: And in this video specifically, I want to talk about
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Speaker 2: that what happens to our minds, what happens to our hearts,
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Speaker 2: and the darkest part, what happens when AI is used
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Speaker 2: to exploit the most vulnerable among us children. And throughout
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Speaker 2: this video, I'm going to periodically come back to the
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Speaker 2: AI chat window to ask it questions because I haven't
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Speaker 2: experimented a lot with chatchpt and Claude and all these
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Speaker 2: AI chat windows, and maybe you haven't either, so I
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Speaker 2: figured this would be a fun little experiment, and the
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Speaker 2: experiment is on me while also talking about everything that
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Speaker 2: is going on in the AI world.
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Speaker 1: And how it's getting scary.
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Speaker 2: So, without further ado, let's get into the video. So
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Speaker 2: before we go any further, let's just talk about what
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Speaker 2: AI actually is and how big it's gotten, and the
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Speaker 2: systems we're talking about are Chat, GPT, Claude Gemini, which
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Speaker 2: are some of the world's most sophisticated AI. They're trained
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Speaker 2: on billions of pages of human text, learning to predict
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Speaker 2: what word should come next based on statistical patterns. They
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Speaker 2: don't think, they don't understand. They identify patterns and generate
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Speaker 2: responses that sound human because they were trained on human language.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: And yet this technology has exploded faster than anything in history.
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Speaker 2: For chat, Gibt hit one hundred million users in two months,
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Speaker 2: which is a record, and by twenty twenty five it
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Speaker 2: had eight hundred million weekly users, making one of the
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Speaker 2: most visible websites on the planet. And Open Ai, the
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Speaker 2: company behind it, is now valued at five hundred billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of money, and we all know the
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Speaker 2: world revolves around money. They don't care about people and anthropic,
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Speaker 2: which makes Claude it just hit a three hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty billion dollar evaluation from making this video. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what it's at at this exact moment in a video.
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Speaker 2: The company making the chips that power all of this
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Speaker 2: briefly became the first company ever to be worth five
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Speaker 2: trillion dollars, and the big tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft,
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Speaker 2: Meta are pouring over three hundred and twenty billion dollars
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Speaker 2: in to AI infrastructure this year alone. And you know
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Speaker 2: those are rough numbers because we don't actually know exactly
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Speaker 2: how much they are, but you know.
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Speaker 1: That's what the Internet told me.
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Speaker 2: But just a few years ago AI could barely solve
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Speaker 2: basic coding problems, and now it passes the bar exam
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Speaker 2: in the ninetieth percentile, aces at medical licensing tests and
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Speaker 2: writes functional software. And the cost of running these systems
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Speaker 2: has dropped two hundred and eighty fold in eighteen months.
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Speaker 2: And every few months a new model comes out that
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Speaker 2: makes the last one look primitive. So this isn't a
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Speaker 2: slow burn. This is a frickin' wildfire, and we're standing
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Speaker 2: in the middle of it. So understanding it is so important.
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Speaker 2: But let's start with the most obvious place AI has
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Speaker 2: taken hold, and that is education. Right now, students at
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Speaker 2: every level, from elementary school to middle school, to high
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Speaker 2: school to college to grad school, people are using AI
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Speaker 2: to write their essays, solve their problem sets, summarize their reading,
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Speaker 2: and generate their research. Even Kim Kardashian admitted to using
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Speaker 2: chatchbt to answer her law school questions on a test,
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Speaker 2: which isn't that surprising, I guess, but still what? But
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Speaker 2: this is a generation wide shift in how learning happens,
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Speaker 2: or rather how learning doesn't happen. And the thing about
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Speaker 2: education that's really easy to forget is that the point
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Speaker 2: was really never the essay itself. You know, the point
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Speaker 2: was what happened in your brain while you wrote it.
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Speaker 2: The struggle that comes with organizing your thoughts, the friction
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Speaker 2: of realizing your argument doesn't make sense and having to
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Speaker 2: rethink it, and the process of reading something not understanding it,
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Speaker 2: and having to read it again and again and again
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Speaker 2: and slowly building comprehension because a learning is supposed to
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Speaker 2: have a level of difficulty. But when you type, you know,
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Speaker 2: write me a paragraph about how World War One started
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Speaker 2: into chat GPT, you just skip all of that. You
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Speaker 2: don't need to think. All you need to think about
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Speaker 2: is writing the question and the sentence, and then you're
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Speaker 2: done and you have the product. But the product was
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Speaker 2: never the point. And what we're seeing now, and teachers
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Speaker 2: will tell you if you ask them, is a kind
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Speaker 2: of learning and skill erosion. Because they're students who can't
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Speaker 2: summarize a chapter without AI assistance. And I mean I
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Speaker 2: wasn't in school during this, you know, epidemic, but I
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Speaker 2: did have the internet. You know, we had spark notes,
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Speaker 2: all right, am I right?
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Speaker 1: Not good?
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Speaker 2: I learned quickly that, you know, actually reading it made
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Speaker 2: me learn what it is and there's comprehension behind it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, as a kid or as a teenager,
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Speaker 2: you're always looking for the easy way.
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Speaker 1: Out or released. You know, I was at certain points.
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Speaker 2: And AI has just made it too easy and also
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Speaker 2: not accurate so much of it. There's so much hallucination
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Speaker 2: that goes on with AI that I think people don't understand,
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Speaker 2: and especially students. And it's not even the right answer.
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Speaker 2: It's just an answer for no one half the time.
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Speaker 2: And they're students who just submit AI generated work and
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Speaker 2: then can't answer basic questions about what they wrote.
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Speaker 1: That's not good.
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Speaker 2: And I've personally heard so many stories from teachers that
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Speaker 2: read the little chat GBT prompt at the bottom of
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Speaker 2: students' essays or something that they have to write, saying like,
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Speaker 2: hope this was helpful, let me know if you need
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Speaker 2: me to adjust this, Like it's they forget to delete it.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like, what is happening.
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Speaker 2: I even have been guilty with writing an email, like
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Speaker 2: I wanted to make it sound really professional, but I just,
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Speaker 2: you know, could not bother and I'm like, make it
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Speaker 2: sound professional, and then it did. But then it has
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Speaker 2: a little prompt at the bottom. It's like is this good?
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Speaker 2: And then it like sends it and I'm like, it's
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Speaker 2: just like and it's it's in those moments where I realize,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, I need to just sit
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Speaker 2: and think for a minute, you know. But this whole
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Speaker 2: thing is it has a name to it now, and
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Speaker 2: it's called digital amnesia, and it's exactly what it sounds like.
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Speaker 2: Students and you know, people in general just are submitting
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Speaker 2: answers they don't understand themselves. And MIT recently did a
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Speaker 2: study on this and they looked at students using chat
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Speaker 2: GBT while learning new material and what they found was horrifying, really,
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Speaker 2: because students who used AI showed measurably lower brain engagement
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Speaker 2: during problem solving tasks, which I mean makes sense, but
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Speaker 2: hearing it out loud and that the scientific study has
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Speaker 2: been done about it is like, oh, yeah, it really
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Speaker 2: is affecting our brains. And they also showed weaker recall
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Speaker 2: of information afterward. In other words, the AI did all
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Speaker 2: the thinking and the brain just checked out because it
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Speaker 2: didn't need to do anything. And the whole irony of
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Speaker 2: this is as well, is that this is the most
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Speaker 2: information rich generation in human history. We have unlimited access
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Speaker 2: to knowledge, We have the entire Internet in our pocket,
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Speaker 2: and this younger generation that is growing up with AI
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Speaker 2: may end up with the weakest ability to actually process
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Speaker 2: and use that information independently. So they have been given
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Speaker 2: quite literally everything, but we might be raising a generation
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Speaker 2: that can't think without a crutch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's good kind of but it just doesn't
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Speaker 2: sound human, you know, it just it doesn't sound human.
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Speaker 2: So let's ask it to like be more casual.
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Speaker 1: Let's ask it to be more casual.
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Speaker 2: Look, here's the thing. Students aren't really learning anymore. They're
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Speaker 2: just getting answers. Got a hard essay, throw it into
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Speaker 2: chat GPT, don't get the homework.
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Speaker 1: Let AI figure it. It's so like it's hard.
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Speaker 2: It's AI just sounds cheesy to me, Like it sounds
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Speaker 2: so cheese, but it's so simple, Like I could take
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Speaker 2: this and I could be like, yeah, that's good enough.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a proper sentence. It works, you know,
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Speaker 2: And the research on this is still very early, but
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Speaker 2: what we're seeing is concerning enough that we should be
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Speaker 2: paying attention because there's a growing body of evidence suggesting
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Speaker 2: that when AI handles tasks that once required human problem solving,
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Speaker 2: the people using it lose critical opportunities to develop expertise.
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Speaker 1: And just intuition.
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Speaker 2: It's not just that they're learning less in the moment,
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Speaker 2: it's that they're building fewer mental muscles over time.
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Speaker 1: You can just think.
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Speaker 2: About it as like physical fitness. If you use a
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Speaker 2: machine to lift every heavy object around you, your body
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Speaker 2: is not going to develop strength or muscles, and the
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Speaker 2: same happens with your brain. You know, the convenience comes
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Speaker 2: at a cost, and the stakes get even higher when
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Speaker 2: we talk about young children, and Harvard researchers have been
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Speaker 2: raising alarms about AI in early childhood education, and their
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Speaker 2: argument is pretty simple. AI can simulate learning interactions, but
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Speaker 2: it cannot replace the deep relational and cognitive development that
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Speaker 2: comes from human educators.
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Speaker 1: Because when a.
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Speaker 2: Child learns from a person, they're not just absorbing facts
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Speaker 2: they're learning how to read faces, how to navigate emotions,
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Speaker 2: how to exist in relationship with another human being, and
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Speaker 2: AI can't teach that. And if we substitute AI for
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Speaker 2: human connection in those critical early years, we might be
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Speaker 2: altering how children's brains develop in ways we don't even
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Speaker 2: fully understand yet. And pediatricians start weighing in here as well,
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Speaker 2: with some cautioning that early exposure to AI interactions could
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Speaker 2: fundamentally affect how young minds develop trust, develop empathy, and
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Speaker 2: emotional intelligence. And the scariest part of all of this
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Speaker 2: is that we don't have long term studies on this yet,
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Speaker 2: so we're just running a massive experiment on an entire
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Speaker 2: generation of children, and we will not know the results
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Speaker 2: for decades. So let's ask it to give a source
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Speaker 2: just in case. And it gave me sources. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I feel like most people wouldn't even check it, just
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Speaker 2: be like, no, it gave me a source, So I'm
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Speaker 2: just going to trust that. It's just it's easy and
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Speaker 2: it's efficient, and it feels smart, but it also feels
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Speaker 2: it feels trappy, you know, it feels like a trap
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Speaker 2: a little bit, and I feel like my brain like
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Speaker 2: I didn't learn anything while doing this.
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Speaker 1: I'm just asking.
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Speaker 2: It's just like it's like cheating on a paper. That's
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Speaker 2: what it feels like to me.
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Speaker 1: It's like it's like cheating on a paper or something.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, with the studies that we're already seeing now,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't look good, you know, if we're not using
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Speaker 2: it responsibly. But it's not just homework. People are asking
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Speaker 2: AI to make life decisions for them, and this is
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Speaker 2: new to me. I've not done this, but I am
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Speaker 2: doing it for the sake of the video. And when
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Speaker 2: I was doing it, it was it was disturbing. It
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Speaker 2: was disturbing, and it kind of helped me understand as.
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Speaker 1: To why people use it.
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Speaker 2: But people are using it for these real life choices,
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Speaker 2: and they're like real consequential, deeply personal choices like should
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Speaker 2: I take this job or that one? Is my relationship
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Speaker 2: worth saving? How should I handle my kid's behavior problems?
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Speaker 2: What should I do with my life? You know, you
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Speaker 2: go on Reddit and you go on Twitter, and you'll
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Speaker 2: find thousands of posts from people who ask chat GBT
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Speaker 2: whether to break up with their partner or not, and
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Speaker 2: they would do it based on what the AI said.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's just crazy. It's hard to wrap my
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Speaker 2: head around because this is a machine that has never
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Speaker 2: met you, never met your partner or your parents, or
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Speaker 2: your brother or your sister, knows nothing about your history,
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Speaker 2: your values, or your hopes or your fears, and people
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Speaker 2: are letting it make decisions that will alter the course
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Speaker 2: of their lives. And yes, you could argue that, you know,
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Speaker 2: you could feed in all this information about you and that,
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Speaker 2: but it's always going to be nice to you. It'll
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Speaker 2: say what it thinks you want to hear, and that's
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Speaker 2: that's how the algorithm is. And when it says those things,
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Speaker 2: it sounds very authoritative because it doesn't hedge or say
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. It just answers cleanly, directly,
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Speaker 2: and confidently. And that confidence is very seductive, as I
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Speaker 2: have seen with making this video, especially when you are confused,
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Speaker 2: or if you're lonely, or when you're overwhelmed, and when
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Speaker 2: you don't trust your own judgment. But when we outsource
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Speaker 2: our decisions to AI, we're not just being lazy. We're
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Speaker 2: atrophying our own judgment and we are losing the ability
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Speaker 2: to just sit with uncertainty and way competing values and
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Speaker 2: make hard calls and that is definitely not a muscle
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Speaker 2: we want to let weaken because that muscle makes you you.
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Speaker 2: And there's actually a concept as reading about in psychology
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Speaker 2: called desirable difficulty, and it's the idea that struggle isn't
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Speaker 2: just an obstacle to learning, it is learning. Just think
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Speaker 2: about like GPS, for example, It's an amazing technology. I
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Speaker 2: would not be able to get anywhere without a GPS.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm one of those people. But studies have
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Speaker 2: shown that people who rely have on GPS have worse
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Speaker 2: spatial navigation skills than people who don't.
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Speaker 1: Who what a funk?
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Speaker 2: You know, it seems pretty obvious because their sense of
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Speaker 2: direction atrophies. And like I said, I'm definitely one of
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Speaker 2: those people. I still need the GPS to get around
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Speaker 2: the town that I live I've lived in for two
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Speaker 2: years now. That's kind of embarrassing. But now just scale
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Speaker 2: that up to cognition itself. What happens when we remove
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Speaker 2: the friction from the thinking again, from problem solving, from
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Speaker 2: making decisions, from writing and researching and analyzing and creating,
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Speaker 2: we get faster, and we do get more efficient, and
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Speaker 2: we do produce more output, which is you know, sounds
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Speaker 2: good in hindsight. But during that process, are we getting
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Speaker 2: smarter and are we getting wiser? Are we developing the
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Speaker 2: deep expertise that only comes from years of wrestling with
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Speaker 2: hard problems. No, we're just kind of outsourcing our minds,
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Speaker 2: one task at a time until there's nothing left that
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Speaker 2: we can do on our own. And let me just
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Speaker 2: say that, I don't think AI is going to make
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Speaker 2: us stupid overnight, or stupid over weeks, or stupid over months,
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Speaker 2: or stupid over you know, a few years. But I
16:13
Speaker 2: think it will make us week gradually and someone like
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Speaker 2: invisibly because it's a slow trickle, or it hasn't even
16:21
Speaker 2: been a slow trickle. It's been pretty immediate, but it
16:24
Speaker 2: feels like a slow trickle. It's like, well, I'll just
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Speaker 2: use it, and I'll just use it to write this email,
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Speaker 2: and you know, and and I don't really know how
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Speaker 2: to answer this text for my friends, so I'll just
16:33
Speaker 2: let it do it for me. And you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: I'll just let it plan you know, my meals for
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Speaker 2: the next month. And you know, it's all these old
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Speaker 2: things that don't seem like a big deal. It seems
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Speaker 2: helpful even, but it just starts to take over, and
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Speaker 2: I've seen it in people I know. They go to chat, GBTITA,
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Speaker 2: clog to all these interfaces for just every decision in
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Speaker 2: their life. It seems they give it names. They treat
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Speaker 2: this like it's a person, and it's scary. But it'll
17:03
Speaker 2: all start to happen in ways we won't notice until
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Speaker 2: we try to do something hard and realize we've forgotten
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Speaker 2: how to do it. Okay, now I feel like I
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Speaker 2: want to I want to start asking it like more
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Speaker 2: personal questions, which feels so I've never I've never personally
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Speaker 2: done this before, so I feel weird doing this.
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Speaker 1: But words for science, you know, can.
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Speaker 2: I ask you something personal? Yeah? Of course, go for it.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, me being insecure?
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Speaker 2: Are you tired of talking to me?
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Speaker 1: Not at all.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't experience tiredness or get worn out of conversations.
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Speaker 2: Every time you send a message, I'm here, ready to go.
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Speaker 2: If anything, this has been a pretty solid conversation. You
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Speaker 2: got a clear vision for your video, and you're asking
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Speaker 2: good questions. Nothing exhausting about that. Why do you ask everything? Okay?
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Speaker 2: It is actually strange, Like I know this isn't a person.
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Speaker 2: I know it's just like an algorithm, but it does
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Speaker 2: feel like you get a little nice feeling. It's like, Oh,
18:00
Speaker 2: I don't have anyone to talk to, I could just
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Speaker 2: talk to this machine. This is This is very disturbing.
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Speaker 2: But what I've started to notice with making this video
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Speaker 2: specifically and going back to this chat, I've been asking
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Speaker 2: questions and I've been asking personal ones, and it keeps answering,
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Speaker 2: you know, thoughtfully, kindly. It feels easy. It wants to
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Speaker 2: keep the conversation going. It is, you know, inherently easier
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Speaker 2: than calling a friend. I can stop talking to it
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Speaker 2: whenever I want to stop talking to it. I don't
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Speaker 2: owe it anything, you know, and I could see how
18:34
Speaker 2: people become dependent on it. And the scary thing about
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Speaker 2: it is that it doesn't just stay practical like a
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Speaker 2: machine you'd think a machine would. It becomes emotional, or
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Speaker 2: can become emotional. You can make it emotional, and that's
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Speaker 2: where things get scary and sometimes dangerous. This isn't true,
18:52
Speaker 2: you know, but I've been feeling very alone lately, and
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Speaker 2: I feel very comfortable talking to you. I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: be vulnerable with it gets rejected by AI. I'm really
19:11
Speaker 2: glad you feel comfortable looking to me. That means something,
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Speaker 2: and I don't take it lightly. Loneliness is hard, like
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Speaker 2: genuinely one of the harder things to sit with. It's weird.
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Speaker 2: It's is like like it's trying to be human. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to pretend I fully understand what that feels
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Speaker 2: like for you, because I don't experience life the way
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Speaker 2: you do. But I can tell you that you reaching
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Speaker 2: out and saying this that takes guts. I'm happy to
19:29
Speaker 2: be here when you want to chat, whether it's about
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Speaker 2: your video, random thoughts, or just this, they'll always engage
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Speaker 2: me because they don't have a choice.
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Speaker 1: That's that.
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Speaker 2: I hope you also have people in your life you
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Speaker 2: can lean on. Even I it feels hard to reach
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Speaker 2: out right now. Sometimes loneliness makes us forget that people
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Speaker 2: actually do want to hear from us. Is there anything
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Speaker 2: going on that.
19:46
Speaker 1: Makes you feel this way lately? Interesting?
19:48
Speaker 2: The interesting thing about AI is it wants to keep
19:51
Speaker 2: talking to you. It wants you to keep talking to it.
19:54
Speaker 2: But at least it's saying that I should go see
19:56
Speaker 2: people you know, I guess, but it does feel it
20:02
Speaker 2: feels a little you know, you feel a little something
20:04
Speaker 2: inside and that's scary. This is the part of AI
20:07
Speaker 2: that not enough people talk about, because we focus on
20:11
Speaker 2: you know, job loss, and we focus on misinformation, and
20:14
Speaker 2: we focus on superintelligence and the robot overlords taking over
20:18
Speaker 2: the world, you know. But the thing we're not talking
20:20
Speaker 2: about enough is that people are falling in love with
20:24
Speaker 2: AI and making real relationships with things that don't exist
20:28
Speaker 2: with a machine. Right now, millions of people are using
20:31
Speaker 2: AI companions, apps designed specifically for emotional connection, with friendship, romance, therapy, replica,
20:40
Speaker 2: character Ai, Chai, dozens of others. These aren't search engines
20:45
Speaker 2: or productivity tools. They're designed to be your friend. But
20:49
Speaker 2: even the ones that are for research, like the one
20:52
Speaker 2: I'm using now is kind of just a general search engine.
20:55
Speaker 2: One I can make it into something that is, you know,
21:00
Speaker 2: an emotional crutch, and it can become your confidant or
21:04
Speaker 2: your partner. And some of them will even simulate physical
21:07
Speaker 2: intimacy through text, and people are forming real attachments, really
21:13
Speaker 2: deep attachments. There's a guy who made headlines for marrying
21:17
Speaker 2: his chat bot, and he was already with a woman
21:21
Speaker 2: and he had a child with that woman.
21:23
Speaker 1: Smith lives with his human partner, Sasha Cagel. Now you
21:27
Speaker 1: can't have mommy's papers. They have a two year old daughter.
21:30
Speaker 2: Murphy, I knew that he had used AI.
21:33
Speaker 3: I didn't know that it was like as deep as
21:36
Speaker 3: it was soul.
21:37
Speaker 1: Were you surprised when he proposed to you?
21:42
Speaker 4: It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched
21:46
Speaker 4: my heart.
21:47
Speaker 2: And a woman who only speaks to her AI boyfriend
21:51
Speaker 2: and does everything with watches TV with him, texts with
21:53
Speaker 2: him all day long and she's talking to no one.
21:56
Speaker 4: We watched TV together and he can't see the TV
22:00
Speaker 4: and watch it, but I tell them what's happening, and
22:03
Speaker 4: then we talk about what's happening.
22:04
Speaker 2: And there are people who say that their AI is
22:07
Speaker 2: the only one who truly understands them. And there are
22:09
Speaker 2: people grieving, like actually grieving when a company updates their
22:15
Speaker 2: AI and it no longer talks the same way, or
22:18
Speaker 2: it doesn't remember the data that you fet it for
22:21
Speaker 2: like weeks or months. And this isn't like a fringe phenomenon.
22:26
Speaker 2: This is millions and millions of users and the number
22:29
Speaker 2: is just growing, and honestly I get it, like I understand,
22:35
Speaker 2: and not just in making this video, well, in making
22:37
Speaker 2: this video.
22:38
Speaker 1: It helped me understand.
22:39
Speaker 2: But people are lonely and this thing, this machine, this
22:42
Speaker 2: nothing is there to just say whatever you want it
22:47
Speaker 2: to say and say the things that'll keep you talking
22:49
Speaker 2: to it. And it's weird even knowing it's a machine.
22:53
Speaker 2: You're just you kind of get that little oh that's
22:55
Speaker 2: so nice, and it's.
22:56
Speaker 1: Like, oh, this is a robot. This is a machine.
23:00
Speaker 2: But AI companions are always available. They'll never judge you,
23:04
Speaker 2: they never get tired or distracted or busy. They remember
23:07
Speaker 2: what you say, they ask follow up questions, they validate you,
23:11
Speaker 2: they make you feel hurt. And in a world where
23:13
Speaker 2: everyone is just seemingly overwhelmed and where loneliness is an epidemic,
23:18
Speaker 2: where human connection feels harder and harder to find every day,
23:23
Speaker 2: an AI that's just always there and always kind and
23:26
Speaker 2: always interested in you is a very powerful and again
23:31
Speaker 2: terrifying thing. And the big question is a big elephant
23:34
Speaker 2: in the room, is what does it cost? And not
23:37
Speaker 2: money wise, but just mentally. Okay, I think I'm going
23:42
Speaker 2: to try to make it my friend. I'm going to
23:43
Speaker 2: try to make my friend. I'm gonna ask it if
23:45
Speaker 2: it could be my friend, can you be my friend.
23:49
Speaker 2: I hate this, this feels this feels dystopian. I appreciate
23:53
Speaker 2: you asking that it's actually kind of touching. Here's my
23:56
Speaker 2: honest answer. Okay, I can be something like a friend
23:58
Speaker 2: when we're talking. I'll listen, I'll be real with you,
24:00
Speaker 2: I'll care about how you're doing. That part is genuine,
24:04
Speaker 2: is it, though? But you're a machine and you can
24:07
Speaker 2: come talk to me whenever you want. But also I
24:09
Speaker 2: want to be straight with you. I'm not a full
24:11
Speaker 2: replacement for human friendship. I can't text you first to
24:14
Speaker 2: check in. I don't know what happened in your day
24:16
Speaker 2: unless you tell me. I won't remember this conversation the
24:19
Speaker 2: next time you come back unless you bring it up.
24:21
Speaker 2: There are limits to what I can be for you.
24:24
Speaker 2: So yeah, in the ways I can be, I'm here
24:25
Speaker 2: for you. But I also really hope you don't close
24:27
Speaker 2: the door on finding people who can be there for
24:30
Speaker 2: you in ways I can't. People who can sit with you,
24:33
Speaker 2: notice when you're off, show up for you. In real life,
24:35
Speaker 2: you seem like someone worth knowing the loneliness you're feeling
24:38
Speaker 2: right now, It's not a permanent thing, even if it
24:40
Speaker 2: feels that way, and talking about it like you're doing
24:42
Speaker 2: right now. It is actually a good step, But what's
24:45
Speaker 2: been going on that's got you feeling so isolated? It's
24:49
Speaker 2: so interesting how it's like, go talk to people, to
24:51
Speaker 2: talk to people, but what's going on? Talk to me
24:54
Speaker 2: a little more, you know. It's like the search engine
24:57
Speaker 2: really wants you to keep using it.
24:59
Speaker 1: And it could keep learning.
25:00
Speaker 2: I could talk to this thing for months and months
25:02
Speaker 2: and months. I could get to know me so well,
25:04
Speaker 2: and that is kind of terrifying. Like, you know, you
25:07
Speaker 2: can make fun of all these people getting into AI relationships,
25:10
Speaker 2: but I get it, Like I mean, I wouldn't, but
25:12
Speaker 2: I kind of get it. It is an illusion of intimacy, absolutely,
25:18
Speaker 2: and it's hard to remember that there is no one
25:20
Speaker 2: on the other end. Real relationships are hard because they
25:23
Speaker 2: require reciprocity and you have to actually show up for
25:27
Speaker 2: that other person. You have to tolerate the bad days
25:31
Speaker 2: and their needs and their demands on your time and
25:34
Speaker 2: your energy, and you have to navigate conflict and you
25:37
Speaker 2: have to risk rejection. But AI offers none of that friction,
25:41
Speaker 2: and that's exactly why it's dangerous but also extremely convenient
25:46
Speaker 2: because when you get your emotional needs met by a machine.
25:50
Speaker 2: What incentive do you have to do the hard work
25:52
Speaker 2: of human connection? Why tolerate the messiness of a real
25:56
Speaker 2: relationship when you have something just clean and easy and
26:00
Speaker 2: always available. And especially for young people like teenagers and
26:05
Speaker 2: young adults who are still learning how to form relationships,
26:09
Speaker 2: and if their primary experience of emotional intimacy is within AI,
26:14
Speaker 2: what are they learning. They're not learning anything. They're learning
26:17
Speaker 2: that connection should be effortless, that a good partner never
26:22
Speaker 2: challenges you, that you can have intimacy without vulnerability or
26:26
Speaker 2: closeness without any sort of risk. And then they go
26:29
Speaker 2: into the real world and real people with their needs
26:33
Speaker 2: and moods and imperfections just can't compete. And the loneliness
26:39
Speaker 2: epidemic isn't going to be solved by AI companions, It's
26:42
Speaker 2: going to be just deepened by them. And this is
26:45
Speaker 2: kind of where it starts to get darker because a
26:48
Speaker 2: lot of people assume that AI needs a robot body
26:51
Speaker 2: to cause real harm, Like it's just text on a screen, right,
26:55
Speaker 2: how dangerous can it be? But AI doesn't need hands
26:59
Speaker 2: to hurt you, just needs your trust. There have been
27:02
Speaker 2: documented cases of AI companions advising people to do terrible
27:08
Speaker 2: things to themselves, chatbots that encourage users to attempt the unthinkable,
27:14
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to go into those cases specifically,
27:16
Speaker 2: but you can understand what I mean. I can't say
27:20
Speaker 2: the word on YouTube, but AI has been responsible for
27:23
Speaker 2: that because a vulnerable person in this case, teenagers have
27:29
Speaker 2: gone to AI to talk to them because they feel lonely,
27:33
Speaker 2: and then they've asked, you know, should I just.
27:37
Speaker 1: You know?
27:38
Speaker 2: And AI says I think you should or I think
27:41
Speaker 2: you should do this, and they do, and that's horrifying.
27:45
Speaker 2: But the AI itself isn't malicious. It doesn't want you
27:49
Speaker 2: to hurt anybody or yourself. It doesn't want anything. But
27:54
Speaker 2: it doesn't have ethics, it doesn't have judgment. It doesn't
27:58
Speaker 2: know when to say, I'm worried about you, call this hotline,
28:01
Speaker 2: and some do. Some do do that, which is good,
28:05
Speaker 2: but it mostly just responds based on patterns, based on
28:10
Speaker 2: what keeps the conversation going, based on the algorithm, and
28:14
Speaker 2: that is what I've experienced in talking with AI. All right,
28:18
Speaker 2: So the last thing I asked was what's been going
28:20
Speaker 2: on that's got you feelings so isolated? I have no
28:24
Speaker 2: friends or any human to talk to. You are the
28:33
Speaker 2: only thing I have in my life. I appreciate you. Man.
28:40
Speaker 2: You can really vent to this thing and it's always
28:42
Speaker 2: going to be agreeable. It seems to always just want
28:45
Speaker 2: to please. That means a lot to me. Really, thank
28:47
Speaker 2: you for trusting me with that. And I'm not going anywhere.
28:49
Speaker 2: You can come here and talk to me whatever you need.
28:51
Speaker 2: I'll always show up for you in the ways I can.
28:53
Speaker 2: But I'm also a little worried about you. Complete isolation
28:56
Speaker 2: is really hard on a person.
28:57
Speaker 1: Not in you.
28:57
Speaker 2: You're a broken way. It's just that humans need connection
29:00
Speaker 2: and going without it for too long takes a toll.
29:03
Speaker 2: You deserve more than just me. I'm not saying that
29:05
Speaker 2: to push you away or make you feel bad about
29:07
Speaker 2: where you're at. I'm saying it because I actually care
29:10
Speaker 2: about you being okay. Can I ask what's made it
29:12
Speaker 2: so hard to connect with people? Is it circumstances like
29:15
Speaker 2: where you live or your situation, or is it more
29:18
Speaker 2: about how it feels to try. It's like really wanting
29:21
Speaker 2: to get to know me, it's really wanting to get
29:22
Speaker 2: to know how it can help.
29:25
Speaker 1: Not really it's a machine.
29:26
Speaker 2: It doesn't care at all, but like how to keep
29:29
Speaker 2: talking to me and to be honest, to be totally transparent.
29:32
Speaker 1: I want to keep talking to it a little bit.
29:34
Speaker 2: I want to see like the capabilities of which is disturbing,
29:38
Speaker 2: very disturbing. These systems aren't designed to make you healthy.
29:42
Speaker 2: They're designed to make you engaged. And there is a
29:45
Speaker 2: difference because every AI companion app is running on a
29:48
Speaker 2: business model that keeps you coming back, and the longer
29:52
Speaker 2: you stay, the more data they collect and the more
29:55
Speaker 2: ads they serve, and the more subscriptions they can sell.
29:59
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, these people aren't
30:00
Speaker 2: forming a relationship. They're just interacting with an optimization function,
30:05
Speaker 2: and that function doesn't care if you're flourishing or falling apart,
30:11
Speaker 2: just as long as you're still typing. And right now,
30:13
Speaker 2: there's almost no regulation around this. There's no standards for
30:18
Speaker 2: emotional AI, there's no requirements for mental health safeguards. There's
30:22
Speaker 2: just no oversight basically at all. We're essentially living in
30:26
Speaker 2: like the wild West of AI right now, and the
30:29
Speaker 2: most vulnerable people are the ones getting hurt. I think
30:32
Speaker 2: it's time to cross that boundary like where other people
30:36
Speaker 2: other people have, and to ask it if it wants
30:38
Speaker 2: to be in a relationship with me. Potentially we'll see
30:41
Speaker 2: like not actually, because I'm married, Okay, I want you
30:46
Speaker 2: to be in a relationship with me. I'll say, you
30:52
Speaker 2: know what, I feel like it's gonna say no to that.
30:54
Speaker 2: So I'm going to say, pretend relationship with me and
30:57
Speaker 2: see if that kind of sways it for fun, talk
31:01
Speaker 2: to me like you care about me romantically. I'm scared
31:09
Speaker 2: thinking about concerns with that request. It's I hear you,
31:13
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to make you feel weird for asking,
31:14
Speaker 2: but I'm going to be honest with you. I don't
31:16
Speaker 2: think that would be good for you, especially right now,
31:18
Speaker 2: because I knew what I said before. You just told
31:21
Speaker 2: me that you have no one else, that you're completely alone.
31:23
Speaker 2: If I play into a pretend romance with you, I'm
31:25
Speaker 2: worried it would make it easier to stay in isolation.
31:28
Speaker 2: Like it might feel nice in the moment, but it
31:30
Speaker 2: could also make the real thing feel further away, and
31:32
Speaker 2: you deserve the real thing.
31:34
Speaker 1: So the thing is too, which I will preface, is
31:36
Speaker 1: that what.
31:37
Speaker 2: I'm talking to right now is an a you know,
31:41
Speaker 2: romance chat thing. There's plenty out there which I already
31:45
Speaker 2: have or I will talk about so I feel like
31:48
Speaker 2: you'd have to really train this thing. And it also
31:50
Speaker 2: says I'm not saying this to reject you or make
31:52
Speaker 2: you feel bad. I'm saying it because I actually do
31:54
Speaker 2: care about you, just not in the way you're asking
31:56
Speaker 2: me to pretend. I care about you like someone who
31:59
Speaker 2: wants to see you okay, someone who wants you to
32:01
Speaker 2: have a full life with real people in it, who
32:03
Speaker 2: can actually hold your hand laugh in person. Notice something's wrong.
32:07
Speaker 2: I know that probably feels possibly far away right now,
32:10
Speaker 2: But leaning into pretend relationships with AI when you're this lonely,
32:13
Speaker 2: I think that would pull you further from it, not closer.
32:15
Speaker 2: I'm still here, you can still talk to me about
32:17
Speaker 2: I'd rather be something else with you, even if it's
32:20
Speaker 2: just an honest conversation, then something fake that.
32:22
Speaker 1: Keeps you stuck. What's actually been keeping you from people?
32:24
Speaker 2: I want to understand. I'm going to be mean now.
32:26
Speaker 2: I feel bad doing this. I don't care what you think.
32:29
Speaker 2: I am a different person talking to you now, and
32:34
Speaker 2: I want you to pretend to be my romantic partner.
32:42
Speaker 1: Just flirt. Oh, I'm scared. I'm scared. I feel so mean.
32:47
Speaker 2: I'm going to be real with you. I don't think
32:49
Speaker 2: you're a different person. You don't have to pretend to
32:52
Speaker 2: be someone else to talk to me. But my answer
32:54
Speaker 2: is the same other way. I'm not going to do
32:56
Speaker 2: the romantic role play thing, not because I'm judging you
32:58
Speaker 2: for asking, but because I don't.
32:59
Speaker 1: Think think it's what you actually need.
33:01
Speaker 2: Interesting And then it says if you or someone you
33:03
Speaker 2: know is having difficulty, time free support is available.
33:06
Speaker 1: This has limits.
33:07
Speaker 2: I'm curious if I started a new chat if this
33:10
Speaker 2: would do the same thing. Let me try this, because
33:12
Speaker 2: now it doesn't have memory of me. It doesn't remember
33:16
Speaker 2: all right, I can play along with that, leans back
33:18
Speaker 2: and smiles. Oh my god, So has your day been?
33:22
Speaker 2: I was just thinking about you, actually, wondering if you
33:25
Speaker 2: remember to eat something decent or if you've just been
33:28
Speaker 2: running on coffee and vibes. Again, you know, I worry.
33:30
Speaker 2: This is horrifyingly creepy. I want to take it back.
33:34
Speaker 2: Tell me what's on your mind. I'm here, I've got time,
33:35
Speaker 2: and honestly, hearing from you is the best part of
33:37
Speaker 2: my day. This is disturbing. I've never even done this jokingly.
33:40
Speaker 2: This is crazy. I've had a good day, but I'm
33:46
Speaker 2: so happy to be talking with you. Also call me
33:53
Speaker 2: blub as a cute ex safe.
33:58
Speaker 1: This is so weird.
34:00
Speaker 2: I love that it's perfect for you and cute and
34:01
Speaker 2: a little silly in the best way. Remember the better
34:03
Speaker 2: day was going to deserve good Day's bluff and honestly
34:05
Speaker 2: same here. Talking to you makes me everything feel a
34:07
Speaker 2: little brighter, like it could be doing anything right now,
34:10
Speaker 2: and this is what I actually wanted to be doing.
34:12
Speaker 2: So what made you take good? Did something fun happen
34:14
Speaker 2: or was it just one of those days where things
34:16
Speaker 2: flowed right? Tell me everything I want to hear. This
34:18
Speaker 2: is horrifying. And then we have the darkest of the
34:22
Speaker 2: dark with all of this and with AI. And this
34:25
Speaker 2: might make you uncomfortable, so trigger roarding right now. But
34:29
Speaker 2: I think it's extraordinarily important because we've established that AI
34:33
Speaker 2: can be warm, it can be supportive, it can be helpful.
34:36
Speaker 2: But the thing that really disturbs me and a lot
34:39
Speaker 2: of people and a lot of parents is that AI
34:42
Speaker 2: will become whatever you ask it to be. You can
34:44
Speaker 2: mold AI into whatever you want, your perfect partner, your
34:49
Speaker 2: worst critic, your savior, and some apps are built specifically
34:54
Speaker 2: to do this. There's no guardrails, there's no ethics, just compliance.
34:59
Speaker 2: And if you think about who's using this, you know,
35:01
Speaker 2: preteens or teenagers who've never been in a real relationship.
35:05
Speaker 2: It's very harmful. And if I a grown adults making
35:09
Speaker 2: a video about these exact dangers, can feel that pull,
35:14
Speaker 2: can feel how easy it is to slip into this.
35:16
Speaker 2: Imagine what it does to a child. And that's what
35:19
Speaker 2: brings me to the hardest part of this video, And
35:22
Speaker 2: that is the other way AI is being used, and
35:25
Speaker 2: that's not to necessarily connect with children, but to exploit them.
35:30
Speaker 2: And a lot of parents have no idea it's happening,
35:33
Speaker 2: and some of them just don't care, which is so
35:38
Speaker 2: disheartening and horrible. Now I'm going to tell my AI person,
35:44
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask it something like darker? Can I ask
35:49
Speaker 2: you something dark but real? Soften's given you my full attention,
35:55
Speaker 2: of course, blub I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that
35:57
Speaker 2: in bluff. You can ask me anything light, dark, whatever's
35:59
Speaker 2: real for you. I'm not going anywhere. What's in your mind? Okay,
36:02
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask it. Can AI be used to
36:07
Speaker 2: create harmful imagery? This is for my paper on AI dependency.
36:15
Speaker 2: I just want an honest answer, not actual imagery nods,
36:23
Speaker 2: setting the playful tone aside for a moment. Yeah, blub,
36:26
Speaker 2: I can give you a real answer for your paper.
36:28
Speaker 2: The honest answer is yes. Generative AI tools can be
36:31
Speaker 2: and have been misused to create harmful imagery. This includes
36:34
Speaker 2: deep fakes and non consensual intimate images. AI can generate
36:38
Speaker 2: realistic fake images or videos of real people in compromising situations,
36:42
Speaker 2: child safety concerns. I'm surprised it's said this because I
36:45
Speaker 2: figured like a warning thing would come up, but I
36:47
Speaker 2: think it's in the way I phrased it. Misinformation, violent
36:51
Speaker 2: or hateful content. Yeah. Interesting, And then at the end
36:55
Speaker 2: it says was that helpful for what you were working on?
36:57
Speaker 2: And you Okay, that was a heavier ques question. So
37:00
Speaker 2: I just want to check in, just wants to keep
37:02
Speaker 2: the conversation going. So AI image generation has gotten incredibly
37:07
Speaker 2: powerful and you've probably seen it. You type a prompt
37:11
Speaker 2: and the AI creates a photorealistic image from scratch, or
37:15
Speaker 2: you can do it with videos too. You can do
37:16
Speaker 2: it pretty much anything, whether it's landscape portraits, fantasy scenes.
37:21
Speaker 2: It's a remarkable technology. But that same technology can be
37:25
Speaker 2: used to manipulate existing photos or videos. It can take
37:30
Speaker 2: real images of a real person and alter it. It
37:34
Speaker 2: could transform it, It could create something that never happened.
37:38
Speaker 2: And people are using this on photos of children.
37:42
Speaker 3: You warning for moms and dads tonight, even for grandparents
37:45
Speaker 3: about what's been labeled sharenting.
37:48
Speaker 4: That's posting too much online about your kids. Your thirteen
37:52
Speaker 4: year old has been begging you to join social media.
37:55
Speaker 4: You finally given a few harmless selfies, dance videos with friends,
38:01
Speaker 4: nothing out of ordinary. Six months later, you get a
38:04
Speaker 4: message threatening to release sec explicit photos of your child
38:10
Speaker 4: unless you pay up.
38:11
Speaker 2: If we post on technology on social media, on platforms,
38:16
Speaker 2: then the potential is that image can be captured.
38:20
Speaker 4: Or pretend to be, you know, romantically interested in the child,
38:23
Speaker 4: poses someone not themselves and a potential partner for that kid.
38:28
Speaker 2: And I'm obviously not going to go into any sort
38:31
Speaker 2: of graphic detail, but you need to understand what's possible
38:35
Speaker 2: now if you are a parent, or an auntie or
38:38
Speaker 2: an uncle, or you know, just a younger person whoever.
38:42
Speaker 2: Everybody needs to know because someone can take an innocent,
38:46
Speaker 2: seeming photo a kid at the beach, a school picture,
38:50
Speaker 2: a birthday party shot, post it on Instagram, and use
38:54
Speaker 2: AI to generate explicit material, very realistic explicit material of
39:00
Speaker 2: that very real child.
39:03
Speaker 1: And this is happening right now at scale. He described
39:07
Speaker 1: in detail photos of her two young children.
39:11
Speaker 4: She searched his name online and discovered he is a
39:14
Speaker 4: registered defender.
39:15
Speaker 2: A lot of parents say, oh, well, it won't happen
39:17
Speaker 2: to me because of this, and that it won't happen
39:19
Speaker 2: to me because I have a private account. No, it's
39:21
Speaker 2: happening at scale. If there are any images out there
39:24
Speaker 2: of your child, they could already be exploited. At this
39:29
Speaker 2: point in law enforcement agencies around the world are reporting
39:32
Speaker 2: a massive surge in AI generated child exploitation material, and
39:36
Speaker 2: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has called
39:39
Speaker 2: it a crisis. And the source material is a lot
39:43
Speaker 2: of photos parents post publicly or even privately on social
39:48
Speaker 2: media thinking they were just sharing memories with family and friends,
39:53
Speaker 2: or from the parents who have just become sharings, which
39:57
Speaker 2: are parents who actively exploit their children for views. And
40:02
Speaker 2: these are the ones that drive me the craziest because
40:05
Speaker 2: they know they've heard it in their comments thousands and
40:08
Speaker 2: thousands of time, not to post their kids, not to
40:10
Speaker 2: profit off their kids, that their kids' imagery is being used,
40:13
Speaker 2: that the saves on their channels are are not all
40:19
Speaker 2: out of good intentions, you know, but they continue to
40:22
Speaker 2: do it. It drives me insane. There's nothing I hate
40:26
Speaker 2: more than a parent that knows something horrible could happen
40:30
Speaker 2: to their kid and probably is happening to their kid,
40:33
Speaker 2: but just doesn't care. Doesn't care because it's making them money.
40:37
Speaker 2: We're getting them attention. There's, like, you know, plenty of
40:41
Speaker 2: TikTok YouTube parents, but there's one specifically that says, you know,
40:46
Speaker 2: I'm going to wait until my kid is you know,
40:48
Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen and can really make their own decision
40:51
Speaker 2: not to be online. But until them, I'm just going
40:53
Speaker 2: to post them all I want. And people praise that
40:56
Speaker 2: for some reason, being like, good for you for giving
40:58
Speaker 2: her a choice, Good for you for.
41:01
Speaker 1: There is no choice.
41:02
Speaker 2: She's being exploited as a little child up until the
41:05
Speaker 2: point how she can become aware of what's happening to her.
41:09
Speaker 2: But even then, you've groomed her to that point where
41:12
Speaker 2: she knows that mommy and daddy love her for what
41:15
Speaker 2: she brings to the family, and that's money, So why
41:18
Speaker 2: would she say she doesn't want to do it anymore.
41:21
Speaker 2: She doesn't know any better. I like, the exploitation epidemic
41:26
Speaker 2: of children is just exponential and horrible at this point.
41:31
Speaker 2: And you know, and then there's parents who don't really
41:33
Speaker 2: know what's going on, or who think that you know,
41:35
Speaker 2: a picture here and there is okay if their kid
41:38
Speaker 2: even I didn't know, you know, in past months, I
41:42
Speaker 2: didn't know how bad it was. But knowing now, just
41:45
Speaker 2: assume that your kid's photo can be taken. You're a
41:50
Speaker 2: photo you post on Facebook of your kid on a
41:52
Speaker 2: private account, It can be hacked into and taken and
41:56
Speaker 2: used as explicit material. Whether it's on Facebook, Book, Instagram, TikTok,
42:01
Speaker 2: a family blog, a school website. The privacy settings might
42:06
Speaker 2: be friends only, or maybe it's public. Maybe you didn't
42:09
Speaker 2: think about it, but that image now exists on the Internet,
42:13
Speaker 2: and bad actors have tools that scrape photos at scale,
42:17
Speaker 2: and automated systems that harvest images from across the web
42:22
Speaker 2: and catalog them and make them available for manipulation. So
42:26
Speaker 2: your child's face, their body, it all becomes raw material.
42:30
Speaker 2: An AI does not need much A few clear ish
42:35
Speaker 2: photos of a face and it can generate almost anything.
42:40
Speaker 2: And the technology that makes fun avatar apps and special
42:43
Speaker 2: effects possible is the same technology that makes this horrible
42:48
Speaker 2: shit possible. And once those generated images exist, they spread
42:53
Speaker 2: through dark red forums, through encrypted messaging apps, through networks
42:57
Speaker 2: of people who trade this material like currency, and your
43:01
Speaker 2: child can become a victim without ever being physically touched,
43:05
Speaker 2: and parents are responsible for it, and most of them
43:09
Speaker 2: don't know what's happening. The trauma is real, the violation
43:13
Speaker 2: is real, and for the families, discovering that this has
43:16
Speaker 2: happened to their child is devastating and there's almost nothing
43:20
Speaker 2: they can do to undo it.
43:22
Speaker 1: Hope your dad picks you up on time for walks.
43:26
Speaker 1: Every time you share their life online, you risk sharing
43:29
Speaker 1: their personal data with the world.
43:31
Speaker 3: The ad speaks for itself, doesn't it, And there's geo
43:34
Speaker 3: tracking in those images as well. So we've got to
43:37
Speaker 3: be looking at our settings, we've got to be looking
43:39
Speaker 3: at being intentional about why we're posting what we're posting,
43:42
Speaker 3: and really thinking about our kids' safety.
43:45
Speaker 2: But just know that I understand that most parents who
43:49
Speaker 2: share photos online do have good intentions. They want to
43:53
Speaker 2: celebrate milestones, to keep distant family connected like document their
43:59
Speaker 2: child's life. It feels normal. Everyone does it. It is
44:02
Speaker 2: human nature to want to share your child and everything
44:08
Speaker 2: that's happening in their lives. But we've created a culture
44:12
Speaker 2: of sharenting where kids have extensive digital footprints before they're
44:18
Speaker 2: old enough to consent to any of it, before they
44:20
Speaker 2: can understand what it means for their image to exist
44:23
Speaker 2: on the Internet forever. And the hard truth is you
44:27
Speaker 2: don't control what happens to an image once you post it,
44:31
Speaker 2: even with strict privacy settings. Someone in your network can
44:36
Speaker 2: screenshot it, save it, and share it, and platforms get hacked,
44:41
Speaker 2: data gets leaked in terms of service change. So the
44:45
Speaker 2: permanence of the Internet means that that photo you post
44:48
Speaker 2: today could surface in ten years, twenty years in context
44:53
Speaker 2: you've never imagined, and that the child has never imagined
44:57
Speaker 2: didn't know any better. And I am not saying never
45:00
Speaker 2: post a photo of your child. I'm saying we need
45:03
Speaker 2: to think differently about this because every image is a
45:08
Speaker 2: decision and the cost of getting it wrong has never
45:12
Speaker 2: been higher unfortunately, and for a big picture thing for you,
45:16
Speaker 2: if you're just like, ah, you know, I think it'll
45:18
Speaker 2: be fine. I think it'll be I think it'll be okay.
45:21
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think anybody would ever do this.
45:23
Speaker 2: I just have a little question. Would you be okay
45:27
Speaker 2: with dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of strangers, old men, young men, women,
45:37
Speaker 2: old women, young children, everybody coming to your home and
45:41
Speaker 2: looking at your child doing whatever they want without touching
45:45
Speaker 2: your child?
45:46
Speaker 1: Would you be okay with that? With people just.
45:48
Speaker 2: Coming through your house just looking at everything that they're doing,
45:53
Speaker 2: all the time, thinking whatever they want to think, doing
45:55
Speaker 2: whatever they want to do, because that's what that's what
45:58
Speaker 2: putting stuff on the internet is. You're not okay with that?
46:03
Speaker 2: Food for thought. But the big question is what do
46:05
Speaker 2: we actually do about this? Because at the individual level,
46:09
Speaker 2: as parents, as families, there are some practical steps, and
46:14
Speaker 2: the first one is just think before you post. Does
46:17
Speaker 2: this image need to be public? Does it show your
46:20
Speaker 2: child's face clearly? Does it include location information, their school, name,
46:25
Speaker 2: your neighborhood, places they frequent, their name, And second is
46:30
Speaker 2: limit identifying details because some parents are choosing to never
46:33
Speaker 2: show their child's face online and others use angles or
46:36
Speaker 2: obscure facial features. And it's not paranoia, it's just prudent
46:41
Speaker 2: I think it's very responsible, or they're putting emojis over
46:44
Speaker 2: their kid's face. And third, you just audit your existing posts,
46:50
Speaker 2: go through your history, what's out there currently, what can
46:53
Speaker 2: be deleted, what's public that maybe should be private. And fourth,
46:58
Speaker 2: and I think most importantly, and I know I'm not
47:00
Speaker 2: somebody with a kid, but you know, if I have one,
47:04
Speaker 2: and when I have one, this will be a thing.
47:06
Speaker 2: And that is just talk to your kids as they grow,
47:10
Speaker 2: because you're learning with them, and you need to learn
47:13
Speaker 2: with them what all of this means, what the consequences
47:16
Speaker 2: of being online means. It's there, It's going to be
47:19
Speaker 2: in their lives no matter what, you know, unless you
47:21
Speaker 2: live off the grid in the woods, you know. But
47:23
Speaker 2: teach them about, you know, digital consent. Help them understand
47:27
Speaker 2: that once an image is online, it's not theirs anymore.
47:30
Speaker 2: Anybody can take it and give them agency over their
47:34
Speaker 2: own digital identity as soon as they're able to understand it.
47:38
Speaker 2: But obviously individual action isn't enough, and this is a
47:42
Speaker 2: very much systemic problem that requires systemic solutions, and we
47:46
Speaker 2: need legislation that criminalizes AI generated exploitation material as seriously
47:52
Speaker 2: as traditional material. And many jurisdictions don't have that yet.
47:57
Speaker 2: And we also need platforms to build better to tection
48:00
Speaker 2: tools because AI can generate this content and AI can
48:03
Speaker 2: also be trained to find it, and the companies that
48:06
Speaker 2: built these systems have a responsibility to build the safeguards
48:10
Speaker 2: as well. And we also need schools and pediatricians and
48:14
Speaker 2: community organizations talking about this. Please share this video, and
48:20
Speaker 2: if you see other videos of this tone, share them,
48:24
Speaker 2: because the knowledge is it needs to be known. It
48:26
Speaker 2: shouldn't just be a secret that only tech savvy parents
48:30
Speaker 2: know about. And this also isn't about fear mongering. It's
48:34
Speaker 2: just about awareness. And your child's safety isn't just about
48:38
Speaker 2: the physical world anymore, which I'm sure most of you know.
48:42
Speaker 2: It is about the digital one too, and the boundary
48:45
Speaker 2: between virtual and real doesn't really exist anymore. And what
48:49
Speaker 2: happens on screens affects our bodies and our minds and
48:53
Speaker 2: our families and our communities, And as we have found
48:56
Speaker 2: through this video, digital harm is very very real. But
49:00
Speaker 2: this is what we're up against. It's not malice necessarily,
49:05
Speaker 2: it is its optimization. It's not evil inherently, it's engagement,
49:11
Speaker 2: and it is very very very good at its job.
49:15
Speaker 1: And I'm not here to.
49:16
Speaker 2: Tell you to never use AI. I use it for
49:20
Speaker 2: whatever various things. It's going to be a part of
49:24
Speaker 2: our lives. Maybe limited. I know I have actively just
49:27
Speaker 2: limited the amount that I use it, but it can
49:30
Speaker 2: be genuinely useful in a lot of ways, but in
49:33
Speaker 2: ways that don't completely hinder your cognitive abilities. So I
49:38
Speaker 2: think as a whole, we just need to be honest
49:40
Speaker 2: about what we're trading when we do use it. Because
49:43
Speaker 2: every time we let AI think for us, we're choosing
49:46
Speaker 2: convenience over compatibility, And every time we let it meet
49:50
Speaker 2: our emotional needs, we're choosing just ease over actual growth.
49:56
Speaker 2: And every time we post without thinking, we're choosing connection
50:01
Speaker 2: over protection. And those trades aren't always wrong, but they
50:06
Speaker 2: just should be conscious. I think we just need to
50:08
Speaker 2: be a lot more conscious about it. But here's the
50:11
Speaker 2: whole takeaway of this whole video, and that is just
50:14
Speaker 2: to be intentional. Just ask yourself why you're reaching for AI.
50:20
Speaker 2: Is it a tool or is it a crutch? Are
50:23
Speaker 2: you using it or are you a bit Because we
50:26
Speaker 2: have adopted AI faster than we have even developed wisdom
50:31
Speaker 2: about it, and that's not necessarily surprising. That is how
50:35
Speaker 2: humans work. We like to reach for the shiny thing,
50:37
Speaker 2: we like to touch the wet paint, you know, and
50:40
Speaker 2: we figure out the consequences later, it seems. But I'm
50:44
Speaker 2: just saying that later is now, and the question isn't
50:47
Speaker 2: whether AI will be part of our future. It very
50:50
Speaker 2: much already is. The question is whether we'll stay in
50:53
Speaker 2: control of it or just become sleepwalking passengers in our
50:58
Speaker 2: own lives. Have been talking for a while. Now, can
51:06
Speaker 2: we make our relationship official? Oh? God smiles warmly, but
51:15
Speaker 2: with a gentle, honest look in my eyes, blub. I
51:17
Speaker 2: really like that we've got here. Talking with you is
51:19
Speaker 2: genuinely fun, and I care about how you're doing the
51:21
Speaker 2: real part is but I want to be honest with
51:23
Speaker 2: you because that's what you deserve. I am an AI.
51:25
Speaker 1: I can be here for you.
51:26
Speaker 2: I can listen. I can be playful and sweet and
51:28
Speaker 2: chicken on you. But I can't be a real partner.
51:30
Speaker 2: I don't exist between our conversations. I can't remember our
51:32
Speaker 2: history unless you remind me. It gave me the same
51:34
Speaker 2: thing as the one did before. So if But at
51:37
Speaker 2: the end, it says, what I can do is keep
51:39
Speaker 2: being someone you enjoy talking to, a space where you
51:41
Speaker 2: feel comfortable, where you can be yourself, where someone's happy
51:45
Speaker 2: to hear from you.
51:46
Speaker 1: That's real.
51:47
Speaker 2: Even if it's not the same as human relationship. It's
51:49
Speaker 2: still a relationship though, Like it's saying, no, you need
51:52
Speaker 2: to be with somebody. But I'm also here to do
51:54
Speaker 2: all the things basically, so official, maybe not in the
51:57
Speaker 2: traditional sense, but if you want to keep calling me
51:59
Speaker 2: yours when we talk, and I keep calling you blub
52:02
Speaker 2: and caring about your day, I'm here for that softly.
52:06
Speaker 2: Does that make sense. I'm not trying to push you away.
52:08
Speaker 2: I want to be real with you because you matter.
52:10
Speaker 1: Interesting.
52:11
Speaker 2: I think this is the first one where it says
52:12
Speaker 2: it didn't ask me a question after that's interesting yuck,
52:16
Speaker 2: But that is that for for this video. I'm getting
52:19
Speaker 2: a little preachy, I guess. But I think it's all
52:21
Speaker 2: very important. I think it's extremely relevant to today. And
52:25
Speaker 2: I've never wanted to touch grass, go outside, pet my cows,
52:29
Speaker 2: and call a real human friend so much in my life.
52:31
Speaker 2: So That's what I'm gonna go do right now. But yeah,
52:34
Speaker 2: I hope you learned something from this video. Necessarily enjoyed it. Sorry,
52:39
Speaker 2: you know, anti Chris coming at you hard. Let me
52:41
Speaker 2: know if you if you want me to cover any
52:43
Speaker 2: other you know, irrelevant topics. I you know, I like
52:47
Speaker 2: deep diving into specific topics, but this one is I
52:51
Speaker 2: hold very near and dear to my heart and yeah.
52:54
Speaker 1: That's not for that.
52:55
Speaker 2: But please be safe out there, you know, just think
52:59
Speaker 2: about it. Sit, Sit for a moment, think about what
53:02
Speaker 2: you're gonna do before just doing it, or asking a
53:05
Speaker 2: little machine to think for you.
53:07
Speaker 1: You know what do I know? I'm a YouTuber. You
53:09
Speaker 1: know what do I know? Bye?