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The Kind of AI We Actually Need | Van Jones | TED
The Kind of AI We Actually Need | Van Jones | TED
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I am overwhelmed by all the conversations that we’ve been having --
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especially about AI.
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I worry about what we're doing.
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I worry about where we're going.
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I worry that we're in danger of building this brave new world
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with all this data and no wisdom.
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All this data --
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(Applause)
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but no wisdom.
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Is there room for wisdom?
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Where is the wisdom going to come from in this brave new world?
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And so I want to talk about a different kind of AI.
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I want to talk about the AI that's absolutely necessary for us
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to give our children the future they deserve.
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I want to talk about Ancient Intelligence AI.
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I want to talk about Ancestral Intelligence AI.
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Do our ancestors have anything to teach us about entering new eras
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and creating new worlds?
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Or should we just push all the old folks on one side?
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I'm a ninth-generation American,
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but I'm the first one in my family
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that was born with all my rights recognized by this government.
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Why? Why?
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Because my mother and my father did everything they could
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to make sure that I grew up in a better world.
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And I want to do that for my children.
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But I'm afraid ...
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I don't know how to do that.
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I'm worried ...
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because a new human civilization is being born,
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and my children are going to grow up in it.
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And it is very different than the one I was born into.
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I have four children.
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Two of them are still sleeping in diapers.
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Here's reality for them.
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Just as a parent.
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Their first crushes
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probably are not going to be a rock star or an athlete.
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Their first crushes may well be an AI,
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may well be an AI.
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That's a different human civilization than the one I grew up in.
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As they get older, when they decide to start families,
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they might open up a laptop or a holographic interface
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and use biotech tools to design my grandchildren.
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That's a different human civilization.
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With longevity tech, and all these health breakthroughs,
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they might be running marathons at the age of 90 or 120.
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When, heaven forbid, it's time for them to be buried,
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my children, who I'm looking at right now,
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might be buried on the Moon or on Mars,
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because within a hundred years,
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we're going to be a fully spacefaring civilization.
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That's a different human civilization.
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But I have a question about it.
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Will it be human?
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And will it be civilized?
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The world that we are building, will it be human,
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and will it be civilized?
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Will it be a world of human flourishing,
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where all these technologies are helping people do great things?
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Or will be a world where robots with no hearts
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dominate human beings with no agency?
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That's my question.
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Humanity now has a math problem
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that we're going to have to come together to solve,
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just what I would call the adaptation gap.
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Technology is now proceeding on an exponential curve.
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Robotics, biotech, AI, quantum computing, space exploration,
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these technologies are now growing their capability on an exponential curve.
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Some of the breakthroughs
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that would have been the breakthrough of a decade just a few years ago
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are not even the breakthrough of the day.
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Today, you can't even win a Twitter cycle,
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because by noon, something else has come out.
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But humans don't develop that quickly.
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Humans evolve on more of a linear slope.
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Humans are not that much smarter,
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that much that much faster than we were 5,000 years ago,
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let alone five weeks ago.
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And this gap is a gap that terrifies me.
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This is the gap that, if we don't handle it properly,
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can lead to social unrest,
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where people don't have what they need,
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and they're left behind,
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and they feel that the future doesn't need them at all.
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Now what I see a lot of people trying to do
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is to figure out some way to decelerate technology,
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is to figure out some way to use legislation and laws
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to decelerate the technology so we don't get left behind.
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But I have bad news for you.
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I spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C.
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If you think that Congress can catch a train moving that fast
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and do something about it,
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you have never met a US senator, OK?
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(Laughter)
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They're not exactly lickety-split type people.
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So --
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I think the better move is to accelerate humanity.
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I think the better move
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is to accelerate humanity.
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And there's a way to do that,
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but it requires both sides of the tech divide to come back
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to Ancient Intelligence,
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Ancestral Intelligence.
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On the tech side, let me talk to my sisters and brothers
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in the technology community,
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and offer a prayer and an invitation.
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We are going to have to have a new deal between Big Tech and humanity.
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The original New Deal was between government and the people.
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That's where the power was, the power was in government.
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The future used to be written in laws in Washington, D.C.
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Now the future is written in code, in Silicon Valley.
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And so there has to be a new deal, a new agreement,
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a new social contract between Big Tech and human beings.
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But right now, we're not on path to doing that.
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Number one, our tech companies keep telling us things
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that we just don't believe.
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They keep saying, "Well, all this abundance,
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these robots are going to work over overtime,
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everything's going to be fine.
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It's going to be so much abundance. Everything's going to be fine."
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Nobody believes you.
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(Laughter)
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Literally nobody believes you.
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(Applause)
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You can just stop saying that.
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(Applause)
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Abundance by itself doesn't solve your problems.
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By the way, the opposite.
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Just wheeling out a wheelbarrow into this room
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called AI, full of diamonds and gold,
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technically makes the room richer,
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but if I dump it out on this side of the room only ...
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you're not richer.
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You're miserable.
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Abundance without participation,
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abundance without inclusion, feels like scarcity.
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It feels like scarcity.
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You think you're scaling abundance,
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but we experience it as you scaling scarcity.
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If you dump out all the good on one side of the room
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the people on the other side of the room, they're not just miserable.
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At some point, their baby asks them a question.
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"Mommy, Daddy, how come we don't have what they have?"
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And now you're not just unhappy, you're ashamed.
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You're humiliated.
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I've worked in some of the toughest prisons in this world.
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The one thing you don't want to do is take somebody who already has nothing
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and then humiliate them.
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They become the most dangerous person in that prison.
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Even if they only weigh 100 pounds.
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We're not just risking mass unemployment,
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we're risking mass humiliation.
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And that has to be avoided.
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There's another reason that coming back to the people
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who embody Ancestral Intelligence at the grassroots level
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will be helpful:
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because it’d be helpful for you.
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You are in a very difficult situation, if you're in the tech world.
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You have tremendous power.
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You have tremendous responsibilities.
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You're not just cofounding companies and cofounding firms.
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You're cofounding a new human civilization.
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And there's a lot of temptation --
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money, fame, power, sex.
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These things can ruin a person.
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These things can ruin a nation.
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And it's the old ways, Ancient Intelligence.
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Don't underestimate those mosques
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and temples and synagogues and churches
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and Native American ceremonies and prayer circles
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for you to come home and get your head on straight.
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Because you being in a greed and speed trap,
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where you feel the only values that matter are greed and speed.
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It is not good for you.
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It’s not good for your decision-making.
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It’s not good for your heart.
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Don't underestimate these little Black churches
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that had nothing but praying hands and marching feet,
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and changed a whole nation.
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Don't underestimate your grandma.
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Don't underestimate ancestral wisdom.
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We need you to come back, and you need us too.
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You need us too.
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There is a way forward together.
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And now on the other side.
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I do want to say something to my friends on the grassroots side.
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Yes, we want our tech folks to come back to Ancestral Intelligence --
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Ancient Intelligence, grassroots intelligence.
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But we've gotten a little bit away from that stuff, too.
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Those of us who work at the grassroots,
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whose hearts are with people who don't have very much,
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whose hearts are with people who have to choose
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between fewer pills or fewer meals this week.
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That's where our hearts are.
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Our hearts are with people
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whose main enemy isn't another rival tech firm,
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it's the check engine light.
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The check engine light.
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When that light comes on,
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and you don't have enough money to go and get your car looked at,
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that's the enemy of the people that we care about.
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And I get it, I get it,
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but I want to say something to my grassroots sisters and brothers.
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We've been a bit much.
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(Laughter)
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We’ve been a bit much this last 10 years.
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We've been kind of hard to be around.
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Been a little bit loose with the name-calling.
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Everybody's a racist and a sexist and a homophobe and a transphobe.
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Everybody's some kind of phobe,
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to the point that now people are phobic about us,
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and don't want to be around us, because we're calling people out,
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and forget, sometimes, to call them in and to call them up.
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We forget, on the grassroots side --
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(Applause)
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We --
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(Applause)
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You know, we say we're holding people accountable,
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but are we holding people?
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Are we holding people?
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I think we replaced "I have a dream"
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with "I have a complaint."
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(Laughter)
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That wasn't a speech.
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That wasn't a speech.
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We forget that Dr King was a futurist.
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He wasn't talking about history.
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Dr King was trying to make tomorrow better.
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Don't get temporal dissociation.
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Dr King was a futurist trying to make tomorrow better.
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That's why we love him.
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And he said he has "a dream."
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A dream is about tomorrow.
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And the thing about it, Ancestral Intelligence
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... is when you have a dream,
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and you’re trying to make something very hard happen,
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you don’t want to multiply enemies.
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You don't want to cancel anybody.
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You don't want to call anybody out.
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When you have a dream for your children and a dream for all children,
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and a dream for the children of all species,
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you want to multiply friends.
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You want to multiply friends.
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And so any politics
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that has us calling people out and multiplying enemies
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is not consistent with Ancestral Intelligence.
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And so both sides have to come back to the table
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and create a new world,
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a new human civilization that is human and is civilized.
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What would it look like?
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It would look like more incubators and accelerators
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and venture studios and funds
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directed to pairing up grassroots folks and engineers,
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people with knowledge of technology,
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but also knowledge of what's happening at the grassroots level.
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It would look like Andre Peart, who was formerly incarcerated,
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paired up with engineers, built something called Untapped Solutions.
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They built a LinkedIn for formerly incarcerated people,
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getting people off the street and employed.
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Now they're deploying AI agents to help social workers.
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Noella Sudbury, a lawyer, teamed up with engineers,
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using AI to expunge people's prison records.
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It would look like Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Diana Frappier at Promise.
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They have built a billion-dollar company to help government not be more lethal,
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but more frugal and more helpful.
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It would look like Tadzio Smith, my buddy at Rapport,
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a company backed by Reid Hoffman that I'm supporting,
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that's using AI to increase EQ, and not just IQ, inside of firms.
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It would look like John Hope Bryant,
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who just launched HOPE AI to get thousands of grassroots people AI-literate.
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He's going to get a billion people literate in AI in the next ten years,
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so we can create even more companies.
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It would look like hope.
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It would look like hope.
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And so what I want to say to you, in closing, is this.
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On the tech side,
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a little less greed and speed.
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A little bit more sharing and caring on the grassroots side,
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a little bit less shame and blame, a little bit more space and grace.
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If we put those two things together,
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what we'll have is a movement that has so much magic and so much genius,
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and so much hope and so much love,
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and so much power
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that what we create out of that will, believe it or not,
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someday be the Ancestral Intelligence
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for our children.
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Thank you very much.
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(Cheers and applause)
