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When you hear young people booing AI, why are they doing that? >> I think that there's an underlying view
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that technology creates leverage for a small group of people, which creates power imbalances. And nothing represents
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that more than AI. that a small number of people that control and profit from and benefit from AI are going to end up
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getting outsized returns relative to the broader population. That the time to diffusion of the technology because
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ultimately all technologies commoditize and diffuse but the time to diffusion here is such that it's going to be
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extremely asymmetric for society. And because those questions about when does this benefit me, how does it benefit me
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can't be answered today, the economic benefit that's acrewing to the few today
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becomes the narrative. It becomes the story and it becomes this like power system that a few people take from the
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many. And so there's something deeply disturbing for the average person about
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that. They don't understand how it works, why it works, what it'll do for
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them, when it will do it. and all that they're being told is that some people
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are making trillions of dollars. So, I think that it's pretty obvious why this
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has got such a backlash. Secondly, I think that there's a deep amount of external energy that's fueling this
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anti-technology sentiment in the United States and has been for decades. I don't
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think it's just China with NOS's today. I think that there is a long history of
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state actors intervening in media activities in foreign nations to try and create the sentiment and fuel a
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sentiment that reduces progress in that competitive state. This third piece is when the capernac revolution happened.
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It was a mind heliocentricity was a totally new way of thinking for humans and it was uh deeply disruptive to the
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church and it was deeply disruptive to the power centers which were the centers that could tell people earth is at the
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center of the universe. We're in control. We're the direct channel to God. And the idea that the sun is at the
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center of the solar system and we spin around it and we're a tiny speck in the
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universe was very hard for people to grasp. There's something about AI that's
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very like not human centric and it kind of shifts and fs with the ego of the human. It's almost anti-humanist
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and I think that that's like a deep psychological current a lot of people and their disdain for this technology.
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It it fuels it. It's not the cause, but I think it feels