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Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED
Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED
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0:04
So if you're like me,
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you might be feeling at least a bit unmoored
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by how fast everything is changing.
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AI, our society, the world order.
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And that's just since this morning.
0:18
(Laughter)
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I have two young daughters, and like a lot of us,
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I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into.
0:26
And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward.
0:30
It was going back, all the way back.
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You see, two billion years ago,
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life on Earth was mostly single-celled
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until bacteria figured out a new trick, photosynthesis,
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which makes oxygen.
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Now at the time, oxygen was poison.
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It shredded the delicate chemistry that nearly all life on Earth depended on,
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and the planet changed faster than life could keep up with.
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Some scientists call what followed the first mass extinction event
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in Earth's history.
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But somewhere in that dying world, an extraordinary thing happened.
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A larger cell swallowed a smaller one, and instead of digesting it,
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they merged.
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The smaller cell became what we now call the mitochondria,
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the little powerhouse inside almost every complex cell on earth.
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That merger created an energy surplus so vast,
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it funded everything that followed.
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Larger cells, bodies, brains.
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Every breath you take
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is still powered by the descendants of that ancient partnership.
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That one accident in a dying world
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is the reason everyone in this room is alive today.
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Biologists call these moments major transitions
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when separate entities stop competing and start building a new whole.
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Like how molecules became cells,
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cells became bodies
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and individuals became societies.
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Every rung on that ladder was climbed through mergers.
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Now we're on the cusp of the next major transition,
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the merger of humans and AI.
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That's right.
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We're going to eat the AI.
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(Laughter)
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Now I know what you’re thinking, OK,
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maybe you’re rolling your eyes.
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Maybe you're laughing,
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maybe you feel nervous -- it’s OK.
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I felt all of those things the first time I heard myself say it.
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So let me explain.
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For 15 years, I worked on building AI.
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I started one of the early AI companies.
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I raised a quarter of a billion dollars to do it,
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and I sold my business to Google.
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And not long ago,
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I was at a private event
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with many of the leaders building the AIs we all use every day.
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People you'd recognize.
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And I asked them
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how many believe there's more than a 10 percent chance
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that AI kills most of humanity in the next 20 years.
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Almost every hand went up.
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The people building these systems know how dangerous they are,
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but they're trapped in a race
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where anyone who slows down gets overtaken by someone who doesn't.
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If one company pauses for safety, another one takes the market.
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If a country stops to regulate, another one races ahead.
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Every AI founder has had the same conversation with themselves
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late at night.
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You lie there and you think,
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if I don't build this, someone worse will.
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AI is the oxygen crisis of our era,
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and it's coming, whether we're ready or not.
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So what do we do?
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When a lot of people think about AI,
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they think about what it will do to us,
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what jobs it will take,
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what we should do to slow it down or regulate it.
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And those are important questions,
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but they're actually downstream of a much deeper question,
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which is what happens if AI stays separate from us?
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Right now, your AI lives on the other side of a screen.
4:02
You ask it a question: it answers.
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You close your laptop and it's gone.
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But while your laptop is closed, the AI keeps getting better at your job.
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And if we stay separate, the AI is not your tool.
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It's your replacement.
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One that gets smarter and faster and cheaper every week.
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It doesn't take much to notice what happened
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the last time a new apex intelligence arrived here on Earth.
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That intelligence was us.
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And since we got here,
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we've driven to extinction every competing intelligence
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between Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.
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Today, we keep our closest animal ancestors, chimpanzees,
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in reserves
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for their protection from us.
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Without a merger, AI isn’t a partner -- it’s a rival.
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So what's the good news?
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The good news is a merger isn't something we need to decide to start.
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It's something we need to notice that we are already in.
5:02
When did you stop remembering phone numbers?
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There was no moment you decided to forget them.
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They just moved from your head to your pocket.
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Your calendar probably went next.
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Then little judgment calls you used to make for yourself.
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The tool was great at it, so you let the tool do it.
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And while something left your head, a better thing took its place.
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You stopped checking your spelling and you started writing.
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You stopped remembering how to get there,
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and you started thinking about what you’d say when you arrived.
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And notice how we keep pulling these tools closer to us.
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The mainframe was in a whole other building.
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We put the PC on our desk, the smartphone in our pocket,
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the smartwatch on our wrist,
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smart glasses on our face.
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Every step closer to our minds, closer to the speed of thought.
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And even that boundary is starting to blur.
5:56
Right now, paralyzed patients are typing with their thoughts.
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Neural implants are restoring speech, vision and hearing
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to people who've lost them.
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Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant,
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says that using it feels like using the force.
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The machine doesn’t feel like a machine --
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it feels like him.
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And you may not realize it,
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but a technology we all use every day is learning to hear our thoughts.
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The Face ID system used to unlock your phone
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is being repositioned into headphones and glasses,
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where it can recognize microscopic muscle movements just beneath our skin,
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movements imperceptible to the human eye.
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The system that first learned to recognize us
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is now starting to see inside.
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Today, a brain implant has about 1,000 connections into the brain,
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and soon it will have 10,000,
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and then 100,000 and then a million.
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At 1,000 connections, you can restore movement.
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At 10,000, speech.
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At a million connections,
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you stop restoring what was lost and you start adding what was never there.
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Imagine learning a language in an afternoon,
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a new skill overnight.
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Maybe even sharing a memory with a friend
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and having it feel just as real to them as it felt to you.
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The thing about this future is it doesn't require new technology.
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It just requires more of the same technology.
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Someone you work with will get it first,
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and you'll hold out for a while,
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the way you did with the smartphone,
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but eventually you won't.
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The advantages of integration will be hard to compete with.
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Think about what we even do when we use a computer today.
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You move a picture of an arrow around until it touches a picture of a folder.
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Inside, there are pictures of files.
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You click, you scroll, you drag.
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Sending a file to a colleague takes a whole minute.
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Two of those seconds were the decision.
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The rest of it is the equivalent of walking across your house
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to flip a light switch.
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With a system that can hear our thoughts,
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you skip the walk.
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The further this goes, the more deeply we integrate with AI,
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the harder it will be to tell where our thoughts end and AI begins.
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For example,
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what's the square root of 117 trillion?
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Go ahead, I'll wait.
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(Laughter)
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If you tried to answer that, you felt something.
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You felt a gap, a pause between the question arriving
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and anything starting to form.
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And you've lived your whole life inside that gap.
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Close it and the answer arrives instantly,
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the way you know your name,
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like a memory.
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One that bridges the distance between human and AI.
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Now I think we'll choose to merge
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because the alternative, being replaced, is far worse.
8:52
But every major transition in the history of life has a condition:
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the parts have to remember that they are parts.
9:00
A cell in your body wants to grow and replicate.
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And normally its growth serves you.
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Your cells grow so you can grow.
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But sometimes a cell forgets that it belongs to a whole.
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It starts growing without limit.
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And if your immune system fails to catch it,
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we call that cancer.
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The thing about untreated cancer is it succeeds for a while.
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The tumor grows,
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but eventually, the cancer kills the host,
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which kills the cancer.
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A part forgets the whole,
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and the whole dies, which kills the part.
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This pattern repeats at every scale.
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Our civilization is itself a merger.
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It is the sometimes fragile, invisible agreement
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that millions of strangers will share institutions,
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sacrifices and a future.
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No one person built this system, and no one group controls it,
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but we all rely on it.
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And as AI arrives and the world gets more turbulent,
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every part of the society we depend on for our survival
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will be tempted to defect.
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People who lose their livelihoods will feel abandoned.
10:10
People who keep theirs will feel entitled to look away.
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And bit by bit, the agreement frays.
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Major transitions fail
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when the parts break before they can adapt.
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And for us to make it to a merger with AI,
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we have to stay merged with each other.
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Major transitions fail when we don't make that leap.
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The thing about the future is we all have to share the same one,
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and we either all make it there together
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or we don't make it there at all.
10:47
Two billion years ago, the first merger gave us our cells,
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and the ones that followed gave us our bodies,
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our minds and our civilization.
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Every beautiful, difficult thing that followed,
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followed because the parts held together.
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Now our oxygen crisis is arriving, and it will not be gentle.
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Jobs will change and some will disappear.
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Institutions will shake and some will fail.
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Surviving this will take everything that we have.
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So here's what I'm asking from all of us,
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for every day from now on.
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Hold together.
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Do not indulge the fantasy
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that your side can let the other side sink
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and somehow stay dry.
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The universe has been doing this for a long time,
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and the mergers that worked left descendants.
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The ones that failed left fossils.
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I want my daughters to be descendants.
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And I want yours to be, too.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
