I would argue that the unregulated deployment of AI is what is causing the West to lose to China. I'm not blaming it all on social media, but we're seeing it happen rapidly in all these countries that have been dropped governed by the information environment created by social media. And if a society cannot coordinate, can it deal with poverty and inequality? So we shot ourselves in the foot and now we're going for the arms. That's really good for the organisms. Why are democracies backsliding everywhere around the world all at once? Barbara Walter, what wrote a book called How the next Civil War Starts.
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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