The world is currently moving towards both of those and actually as the more frequently the continual catastrophes happen, the more it's going to drive us towards the direction of the dystopia. We are currently living in the downward spiral. Technology decoheres a dicks outrage, lonlifies culture. That incoherent culture can't support any institutional responses to anything that incapacitated dysfunctional set of institutions doesn't regulate technology. The upward spiral is what we need to get to. And the third way what Taiwan is doing is actually proving that you can use technology in a way that gets you the upward spiral.
After Kara and Nayeema review the week’s A.I. news, including Sam Altman’s Senate testimony and the viral AI-generated image of the Pentagon in flames, we turn to Tristan Harris — co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and a key voice among the calls for slowing down the A.I. arms race.
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