Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy "We're heading over the cliff" - Former SpaceX and Google insider’s warning
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Jul 31, 2026 
Dex Hunter-Torricke, former Silicon Valley adviser to Google, Meta and SpaceX and founder of The Center for Tomorrow, warns that rapid AI rollout and Big Tech power risk deepening inequality and destabilizing democracy. He recounts leaving insider roles, critiques tech lobbying and performative regulation, and urges urgent global cooperation and new governance to manage technological disruption.
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We're Heading Over The Cliff
- Dex Hunter-Torricke warns we are "heading over the cliff" because powerful tech is arriving without societal preparation.
- He argues we need a radical societal agenda, not just product-level fixes, to reshape institutions and economies now.
Build A Shared Societal Agenda
- Do build a cross-societal agenda: governments, industries and communities must define what kind of people and world they want as AI arrives.
- Dex recommends transforming institutions and planning deployment choices, not merely accelerating tech build-out.
High Power Labs, Weak Chassis
- Meta is used as an example of top AI labs that have "an engine of a Ferrari" but left society's chassis unprepared.
- Dex says companies are "winging it," risking devastating social and economic deployment choices.