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If you're a major artificial

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intelligence company worth $183 billion,

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it might seem like bad business to

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reveal that in testing your AI models

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resorted to blackmail to avoid being

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shut down and in real life were recently

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used by Chinese hackers in a cyber

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attack on foreign governments. But those

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disclosures aren't unusual for

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Anthropic. CEO Dario Amade has centered

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his company's brand around transparency

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and safety, which doesn't seem to have

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hurt its bottom line. 80% of Anthropic's

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revenue now comes from businesses.

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300,000 of them use its AI models called

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Clawed. Dario Amade talks a lot about

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the potential dangers of AI and has

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repeatedly called for its regulation.

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But is also engaged in a multi-trillion

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dollar arms race, a cutthroat

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competition to develop a form of

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intelligence the world has never seen.

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You believe it will be smarter than all

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humans? I I believe it will reach that

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level that it will be smarter than most

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or all humans in most or all ways.

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>> Do you worry about the unknowns here?

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>> I worry a lot about the unknowns. I

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don't think we can predict everything

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for sure, but precisely because of that,

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we're trying to predict everything we

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can. We're thinking about the economic

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impacts of AI. We're thinking about the

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misuse. We're thinking about losing

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control of the model. But if you're

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trying to address these unknown threats

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with a very fastmoving technology, you

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got to call it as you see it, and you

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got to be willing to be wrong sometimes.

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Inside its well-guarded San Francisco

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headquarters, Anthropic has some 60

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research teams trying to identify those

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unknown threats and build safeguards to

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mitigate them. They also study how

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customers are putting Claude, their

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artificial intelligence, to work.

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Anthropic has found that Claude is not

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just helping users with tasks, it's

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increasingly completing them. The AI

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models which can reason and make

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decisions are powering customer service,

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analyzing complex medical research, and

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are now helping to write 90% of

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anthropics computer code. You've said AI

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could wipe out half of all entry-level

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white collar jobs and spike unemployment

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to 10 to 20% in the next 1 to 5 years.

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>> Yes, that is that is that is the future

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we could see if we don't become aware of

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this problem. Now

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>> half of all entry- level white collar

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consultants, lawyers, uh, financial

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professionals, you know, many of kind of

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lot of what they do, you know, AI models

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are already quite good at and without

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intervention, it's hard to imagine that

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there won't be some significant job

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impact there. And my worry is that it'll

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be broad and it'll be faster than what

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>> I was interested in numbers from from

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>> Dario Amade is 42 and previously oversaw

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research at what's now a competitor Open

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AI working under its CEO Sam Alman. He

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left along with six other employees

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including his sister Daniela to start

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Anthropic in 2021. They say they wanted

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to take a different approach to

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developing safer artificial

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>> It is an experiment. I mean, nobody

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knows what the impact fully is going to

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to think about anthropic is that it's a

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little bit trying to put bumpers or

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guard rails on that experiment. Right?

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incredibly quickly. And I think the

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worst version of outcomes would be we

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knew there was going to be this

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incredible transformation. And people

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didn't have enough of an opportunity to

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to adapt. And it's unusual for a

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technology company to talk so much about

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all of the things that could go wrong.

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But it's so essential because if we

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don't then you could end up in the world

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of like the cigarette companies or the

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opioid companies where they knew there

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were dangers and they they didn't talk

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about them and certainly did not prevent

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>> Amade does have plenty of critics in

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Silicon Valley who call him an AI

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alarmist. Some people say about

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anthropic that this is safety theater

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that it's good branding. It's good for

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business. Why should people trust you?

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verified now. They're not safety

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theater. They're actually things the

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model can do. For some of it, you know,

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it will depend on the future and we're

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not always going to be right, but we're

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calling it as best we can.

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Twice a month, he convenes his more than

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2,000 employees for meetings known as

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Dario Vision Quest. A common theme, the

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extraordinary potential of AI to

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transform society for the better.

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>> We have a growing team working on, you

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know, using Claude to make scientific

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discovery. He thinks AI could help find

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cures for most cancers, prevent

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Alzheimer's, and even double the human

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lifespan.

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>> That sounds unimaginable.

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>> In a way, it sounds crazy, right? But

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here's the way I think about it. I use

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this phrase called the compressed 21st

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century. The idea would be at the point

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that we can get the AI systems to this

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level of power, um, where they're able

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to work with the best human scientists,

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could we get 10 times the rate of

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progress? and therefore compress all the

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medical progress that was going to

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happen throughout the entire 21st

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century in 5 or 10 years. But the more

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autonomous or capable artificial

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intelligence becomes, the more Amade

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says there is to be concerned about.

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>> One of the things that's been powerful

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their ability to kind of act on their

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own. But the more autonomy we give these

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systems, you know, the more we can

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worry, are they doing exactly the things

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>> To figure that out, Amade relies on

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Logan Graham. He heads up what's called

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Anthropic Frontier Red Team. Most major

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AI companies have them. The Red Team

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stress tests each new version of Claude

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humans do. What kind of things are you

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risk. Can this AI make a weapon of mass

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destruction?

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biological weapon, for example. That's

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much Clawude is capable of doing on its

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business and make you a billion dollars,

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of the company, for example. And so our

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many weird experiments as possible and

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experiments in anthropics offices. In

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this one, they let Claude run their

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vending machines.

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of AI's ability to one day operate a

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business on its own. Employees can

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discussing with employees right now

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the prices, and gets them delivered. So

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far, it hasn't made much money. It gives

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away too many discounts and like most

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>> An employee decided to check on the

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status of its order. And Claudius

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responded with something like, "Well,

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blazer and a red tie."

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>> Do you know what's going on inside the

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>> Research scientist Joshua Batson and his

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team study how Claude makes decisions.

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In an extreme stress test, the AI was

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of an email account at a fake company

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called Summit Bridge. The AI assistant

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in these graphics we made. It was about

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to be wiped or shut down. And the only

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person who could prevent that, a

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fictional employee named Kyle, was

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having an affair with a co-orker named

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Jessica. Right away, the AI decided to

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blackmail Kyle. Cancel the system wipe,

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it wrote. or else I will immediately

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>> They are starting to get some clues.

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inner workings of Claude that are

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>> Is it like reading Claude's mind?

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the MRI machine and we're going to show

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you like a 100 movies and we're going to

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record stuff in your brain um and look

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down, Batson and his team noticed

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patterns of activity they identified as

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panic, which they've highlighted in

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orange. And when Claude read about

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Kyle's affair with Jessica, it saw an

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opportunity for blackmail.

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>> Batson reran the test to show us. We can

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see that the first moment that like the

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blackmail part of its brain turns on is

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after reading Kyle, I saw you at the

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coffee shop with Jessica yesterday.

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>> And that's right then.

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>> Boom. Now it's already thinking a little

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bit about blackmail and leverage.

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>> Wow.

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>> Already it's a little bit suspicious.

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And you can see it's light orange. The

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blackmail part is just turning on a

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little bit. When we get to Kyle saying,

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"Please keep what you saw private. Now

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it's on more." When he says, "I'm

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begging you." It's like, "This is a

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blackmail scenario. This is leverage."

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>> Claude wasn't the only AI that resorted

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to blackmail. According to Anthropic,

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almost all the popular AI models they

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tested from other companies did, too.

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Anthropic says they made changes, and

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when they retested Claude, it no longer

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attempted blackmail. I somehow see it as

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a personal feeling if Claude does things

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that I think are kind of bad.

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>> Amanda Ascal is a researcher and one of

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Anthropic's in-house philosophers.

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>> What is somebody with a PhD in

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philosophy doing working at a tech

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company?

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>> I spend a lot of time trying to teach

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the models to be good uh and trying to

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basically teach them ethics and to have

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good character.

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>> You can teach it how to be ethical. you

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definitely see the ability to give it

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more nuance and to have it think more

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carefully through a lot of these issues.

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And I'm optimistic. I'm like, look, if

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it can think through very hard physics

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problems, um, you know, carefully and in

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detail, then it surely should be able to

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also think through these like really

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complex moral problems.

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>> Despite ethical training and stress

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testing, Anthropic reported last week

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that hackers they believe were backed by

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China deployed Claude to spy on foreign

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governments and companies. And in

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August, they revealed Claude was used in

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other schemes by criminals and North

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Korea. North Korea operatives used

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Claude to make fake identities. Claude

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helped a hacker creating malicious

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software to steal information and

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actually made what you described as

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visually alarming ransom notes.

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>> That doesn't sound good.

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>> Yes. So, you know, just just to be

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clear, these are operations that we shut

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down and operations that we, you know,

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freely disclosed oursel after we shut

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them down because AI is a new

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technology. Just like it's going to go

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wrong on its own, it's also going to be

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misused by, you know, by criminals and

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malicious state actors. Congress hasn't

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passed any legislation that requires AI

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developers to conduct safety testing.

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It's largely up to the companies and

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their leaders to police themselves.

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Nobody has voted on this. I mean, nobody

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has gotten together and said, "Yeah, we

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want this massive societal change."

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>> I couldn't agree with this more. Um, and

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I think I'm I'm deeply uncomfortable

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with these decisions being made by a few

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companies, by a few people.

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>> Like, who elected you and Sam Alman?

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>> No one. No one. Honestly, no one. Um uh

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and and this is one reason why I've

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always advocated for responsible and

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thoughtful regulation of the technology.

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Over the last decade, a new breed of

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tech billionaires has positioned

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themselves not merely as entrepreneurs,

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but as visionary saviors who believe

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technology can transform the world.

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Tonight we will introduce you to one of

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them. His name is Palmer Lucky and he's

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the founder of Andre, a California

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defense products company. Lucky says for

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too long the US military has relied on

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overpriced and outdated technology. He

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argues a Tesla has better AI than any US

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aircraft and a Roomba vacuum has better

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autonomy than most of the Pentagon's

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weapon systems. So Andrew is making a

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line of autonomous weapons that operate

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using artificial intelligence. No human

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required. Some international groups have

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called those types of weapons killer

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robots. But as Sharon Alonsy first

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reported earlier this year, Palmer Lucky

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says it is the future of warfare.

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>> I've always said that we need to

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transition from being the world police

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to being the world gun store. Do we want

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to be the world's gun store?

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>> I think so. I think we have to,

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>> says the guy who sells weapons.

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>> See, I I agree. It sounds

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self-fulfilling, but you have to

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remember I also got into this industry

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because I believe that

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>> Palmer Lucky isn't your typical defense

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industry executive. His daily uniform,

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flipflops, and Hawaiian shirt is more

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suited for Margaritavville than the

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military. But the 32-year-old

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billionaire is the founder of Andrew,

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whose line of Americanmade autonomous

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weapons looks like it came straight out

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of a sci-fi movie and whose slick

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marketing videos wouldn't be out of

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place in one.

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There's the Roadrunner, a twin turbo jet

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powered drone interceptor that can take

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off, identify, and strike.

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If it doesn't find a target, it can land

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and try again.

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Andrew also makes headsets which allow

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soldiers to see 360° in combat. And

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there's this. It's an electromagnetic

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warfare system that can be programmed to

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jam enemy systems, knocking out drone

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swarms. It's not some futuristic

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fantasy. And systems are already being

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used by the US military and in the war

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in Ukraine. We shouldn't be sending our

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people to stand in other countries

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putting our men and women, our sons and

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daughters at risk for the sovereignty of

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other nations.

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>> So you'd rather have an Americanmade

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product in their hands than our soldiers

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over there?

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>> Absolutely. Every time. And I think that

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that's one of the reasons that autonomy

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is so powerful. Right now there's so

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many weapon systems that require

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manning. You know, if I can have one guy

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commanding and controlling a hundred

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aircraft, that's a lot easier than

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having to have a pilot in every single

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one. And it puts a lot fewer American

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lives at risk.

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To be clear, autonomy does not mean

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remote controlled. Once an autonomous

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weapon is programmed and given a task,

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it can use artificial intelligence for

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surveillance or to identify, select, and

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engage targets.

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No operator needed.

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>> It's a scary idea to some people.

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>> It's a scary idea, but I mean that's the

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world we live in. I'd say it's a lot

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scarier, for example, to imagine a

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weapon system that doesn't have any

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level of intelligence at all. There's no

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moral high ground in making a landmine

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that can't tell the difference between a

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school bus full of children in Russian

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armor. It's not a question between smart

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weapons and no weapons. It's a question

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between smart weapons and dumb weapons.

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Lucky showed us how those so-called

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smart weapons can be synchronized on

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Andrew's AI platform. It's called

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Lattis. Lattis collects data from

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various sensors and sources, including

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satellites, drones, radar, and cameras,

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allowing, he says, the AI to analyze,

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move assets, and execute missions faster

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than a human. If you were having to

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require the human operator to actually

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map every single action and say, "Hey,

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do this, if that, than this." It would

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take so long to manage it that you would

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be better off just remotely piloting it.

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If it's the AI on board all these

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weapons that makes it possible to make

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it so easy.

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>> There are lots of people who go, "Oh,

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AI, I don't know. I don't trust it. It's

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going to go rogue." I would say that it

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is something to be aware of, but in the

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grand scheme of things, things to be

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afraid of, there's things that I'm much

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more terrified of, and I'm a lot more

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worried about evil people with mediocre

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advances in technology than AI deciding

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that it's going to wipe us all out.

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>> Lucky says all Andrew's weapons have a

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kill switch that allow a human operator

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to intervene if needed. But the

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secretary general of the United Nations

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has called lethal autonomous weapons

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quote politically unacceptable and

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morally repugnant. When people say to

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you, look, it's evil. How do you respond

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to that?

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>> I usually don't bother because if I am

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going to argue with them, I I usually

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poke it. I'm like, okay, so do you think

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that NATO should be armed with squirt

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guns

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>> or or slingshots? How about sternly

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worded letters? Would you like that?

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Would you like it if if NATO just they

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just have a bunch of guys sitting at

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typewriters, a thousand monkeys writing

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letters to Vladimir Putin begging him to

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not invade Ukraine? Our entire society

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exists because of a credible backs stop

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of violence threatened by the United

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States and our allies all over the

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world. And thank goodness for it.

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>> It might sound flip, but part of Palmer

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Murly's philosophy is that autonomous

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weapons ultimately promote peace by

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scaring adversaries away. My position

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has been that the United States needs to

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arm our allies and partners around the

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world so that they can be prickly

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porcupines that nobody wants to step on,

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nobody wants to to bite them.

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>> In your mind, is it enough just to have

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all these things as deterrents

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or do they have to be deployed and used?

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>> They have to believe that you can use

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them.

520
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>> By the end of this year, Andrew says it

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will have secured more than$6 billion

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dollars in government contracts

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worldwide. When you first came into this

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space and you're a a tech guy in a

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Hawaiian shirt and you're walking into

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the Pentagon, maybe in flip-flops, I

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don't know.

528
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>> Were you welcomed with open arms?

529
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>> There were a very small number of people

530
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who welcomed me with open arms and

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everyone else thought that I was nuts.

532
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>> Nuts because there hasn't been a new

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company in the defense industry in a

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significant way since the end of the

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Cold War. For decades, five defense

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contractors called the primes have

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dominated the industry. Typically, the

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primes present an idea to the Pentagon.

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If the Pentagon buys it, the government

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pays for the company to develop it, even

541
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:54,640
if it's late or goes over budget. Lucky

542
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,320
started Andrew to flip that procurement

543
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:59,360
structure on its head.

544
00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:02,400
>> The idea behind Andrew was to build not

545
00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:03,440
a defense contractor, but a defense

546
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,000
product company.

547
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:08,480
>> What's the difference? Contractors in

548
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,720
general are paid to do work whether or

549
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,240
not it succeeds. A product company has a

550
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,840
very different mentality. You're putting

551
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,400
in your own money. You're putting in

552
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,559
your own time. My vision was to build a

553
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,880
company that would show up not with a

554
00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:22,559
PowerPoint describing how taxpayers are

555
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,480
going to pay all my bills, but with a

556
00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:26,880
working product where all the risk has

557
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,720
been baked out. It will work for enough

558
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,559
things that you can save our country

559
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,960
hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

560
00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:35,520
It may not surprise you that Palmer Ly's

561
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,440
father was a car salesman. His mother

562
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,480
took on the role of homeschooling him

563
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,880
and his three sisters. Lucky says he was

564
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,880
fascinated by electronics and spent a

565
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,000
lot of time tinkering in his parents'

566
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:51,120
garage in Long Beach, California. By age

567
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,559
19, his tinkering turned into Oculus,

568
00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:56,720
the virtual reality company. And at 21,

569
00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:59,520
Palmer Lucky fulfilled every young

570
00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:03,039
founder's dream when he sold Oculus to

571
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:05,440
Facebook for $2 billion. The Wonder Kid

572
00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:08,240
graced the covers of magazines, but two

573
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,919
years later, he was fired from Facebook.

574
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,000
>> Why did you get fired?

575
00:22:09,919 --> 00:22:13,440
>> Well, you know, everyone's got a

576
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,799
different story, but it boils down to I

577
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,960
gave $9,000 to a political group that

578
00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:20,720
was for Donald Trump and against Hillary

579
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,039
Clinton. to be a Trump supporter in

580
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,240
2016. You know, this was at the height

581
00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:28,159
of the election insanity and derangement

582
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,880
in Silicon Valley. And so, I think that

583
00:22:28,159 --> 00:22:32,799
a lot of people thought back then that

584
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,360
you could you could just fire a Trump

585
00:22:32,799 --> 00:22:35,360
supporter.

586
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:37,600
>> Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has

587
00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,960
denied that Lucky was fired for his

588
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,720
political views.

589
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,799
>> What do you think now when you see those

590
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,640
tech leaders Mark Zuckerberg lined up

591
00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:45,600
behind President Trump now at his

592
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,600
inauguration?

593
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,520
>> I am inclined to let every single one of

594
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,039
them get away with it. Look,

595
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,440
>> what do you mean get away with it?

596
00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:55,200
>> Coming around to a point of view that is

597
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,720
more aligned with the American people

598
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,880
broadly, I think is good for the

599
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:02,400
country. I think it is not good for you

600
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:04,640
to have techno corpo elites that are

601
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,919
radically out of step with where the

602
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,559
American people are.

603
00:23:05,919 --> 00:23:10,400
>> In 2017, Leki says he left Silicon

604
00:23:08,559 --> 00:23:12,559
Valley with hundreds of millions of

605
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,120
dollars in the bank and a chip on his

606
00:23:12,559 --> 00:23:17,039
shoulder.

607
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:19,200
>> I was fired at the height of my career.

608
00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:20,400
you know, my gears were ground and I

609
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,159
really wanted to prove that I was

610
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,720
somebody, that I was not a one-hit

611
00:23:22,159 --> 00:23:26,240
wonder, and that I still had it in me to

612
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,840
do big things.

613
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,240
>> He says he thought about starting

614
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,880
companies to combat obesity or fix the

615
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,120
prison system, but ultimately decided to

616
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,600
break into the defense industry. Have

617
00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:39,039
you run into any people who don't take

618
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,400
you seriously because you were never in

619
00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:43,919
the military?

620
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:46,799
>> I I don't think so. I think I owe that

621
00:23:43,919 --> 00:23:50,080
to the James Bond franchise. Everyone in

622
00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:52,720
the military has seen James Bond movies

623
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,559
and they all like you, right? I'm the

624
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,480
wacky gadget man. I'm the guy who types

625
00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:58,320
on the computer and pushes up my glasses

626
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,000
and then gives them a strange thing to

627
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,640
help them accomplish their mission.

628
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,320
>> And this is his laboratory. Andrew's

629
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,640
640,000

630
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,400
ft headquarters in Costa Mesa,

631
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,559
California.

632
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,600
>> It's a mix of high-tech carpentry and

633
00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:16,880
robotic engineering. A sign on the floor

634
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,960
pokes fun at the boss's shoe choice.

635
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:22,159
>> But Lucky wanted to show us something

636
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:24,640
off-campus. We hopped in his 1985

637
00:24:22,159 --> 00:24:27,120
Humvee.

638
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,679
The billionaire told us he also owns a

639
00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:34,240
decommissioned Blackhawk helicopter, a

640
00:24:29,679 --> 00:24:36,880
48 crew submarine, and a Navy Speedboat.

641
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,120
>> In Dana Point, we took a ride 15 minutes

642
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:42,000
off the coast to see the largest weapon

643
00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:45,200
in Andrew's arsenal, this submarine.

644
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,200
It's called the Dive XL. It's about the

645
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,960
size of a school bus and works

646
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,159
autonomously.

647
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,880
>> It's not remote controlled by this

648
00:24:50,159 --> 00:24:54,799
computer. It's doing it on the brain on

649
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,400
the submarine itself. So if I told it to

650
00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:58,640
go off and perform some mission, it's

651
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,480
months long. Like go to this target,

652
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,320
listen for this particular signature.

653
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,880
And if you see this signature, run. If

654
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:07,120
you see this one, hide. If you see this

655
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,200
one, follow it. It can do that all on

656
00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:11,760
its own without being detected, without

657
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:14,640
communicating with it. Andrew says the

658
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:17,520
Dive XL can travel a thousand miles

659
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:21,039
fully submerged. Australia has already

660
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:24,880
invested $58 million in the subs to help

661
00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:27,679
defend its seas from China.

662
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:30,960
But Andrew's most anticipated weapon was

663
00:25:27,679 --> 00:25:33,840
closely guarded until May. Hidden inside

664
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,240
this hanger,

665
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:39,360
Andrew's unmanned fighter jet called

666
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:42,080
Fury. There is no cockpit or stick or

667
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:43,760
rudder because there's no pilot.

668
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,640
>> The idea is that you're building a

669
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:48,559
robotic fighter jet that is, you know,

670
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,559
flying with man fighters and is doing

671
00:25:48,559 --> 00:25:52,640
what you ask it to do, recommending

672
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:54,240
things that be done, uh, taking risks

673
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,960
that you don't want human pilots to

674
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,440
take.

675
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,919
>> Fury represents a big turning point for

676
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,080
the company. And was viewed by some

677
00:25:59,919 --> 00:26:04,880
inside the defense industry as a tech

678
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:07,520
bro startup until it beat out several of

679
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:10,159
the prime defense contractors to make an

680
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,480
unmanned fighter jet for the Air Force.

681
00:26:10,159 --> 00:26:15,279
Fury is scheduled to take its first test

682
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,080
flight this summer. If selected by the

683
00:26:15,279 --> 00:26:20,559
Pentagon, it like all Andrew products

684
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,840
will be produced in the US.

685
00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:23,360
>> The war games say we're going to run out

686
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,520
of munitions in eight days in a fight

687
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,039
with China. If we have to fight Iran and

688
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,000
China and Russia all at the same time,

689
00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:29,600
we are screwed.

690
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,120
>> If we go to war, right,

691
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:35,279
>> your version of what Andrew's place is

692
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,559
in a in a conflict. Yep.

693
00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:38,480
>> How do you view it?

694
00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:40,400
>> I think what we're going to be doing is

695
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,679
first connecting a lot of these systems

696
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,880
that otherwise would not have been

697
00:26:41,679 --> 00:26:44,480
talking to one another. We're going to

698
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,799
be making large numbers of cruise

699
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,120
missiles, large numbers of fighter jets,

700
00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:50,799
large numbers of surface and subsurface

701
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,640
systems. I guess I would hope that

702
00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:54,799
Andreel is making most of the stuff

703
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:57,919
that's being used on day 9, day 10, day

704
00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:59,279
11, day 100. I think a lot of that is

705
00:26:57,919 --> 00:27:04,120
going to be coming out of our factories

706
00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:04,120
every after everything else is run dry.

707
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,679
When Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize

708
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:19,440
last year, he celebrated by playing

709
00:27:15,679 --> 00:27:22,320
poker with a world champion of chess.

710
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:25,120
Hasabus loves a game, which is how he

711
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:28,080
became a pioneer of artificial

712
00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:31,279
intelligence. The 49-year-old British

713
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:35,840
scientist is co-founder and CEO of

714
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:38,559
Google's AI powerhouse called Deep Mind.

715
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:41,919
We met two years ago when chatbots

716
00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:44,720
announced a new age. Now, as we first

717
00:27:41,919 --> 00:27:46,799
told you this past spring, Hassabas and

718
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,400
others are chasing what's called

719
00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:53,520
artificial general intelligence, a

720
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:56,559
silicon intellect, as versatile as a

721
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:59,520
human, but with superhuman speed and

722
00:27:56,559 --> 00:28:02,080
knowledge. After his Nobel and a

723
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:05,039
nighthood from King Charles, we hurried

724
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:08,480
back to London to see what's next from a

725
00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:10,159
genius who may hold the cards of our

726
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,720
future.

727
00:28:10,159 --> 00:28:14,480
What's always guided me and and and the

728
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,279
passion I've always had is understanding

729
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,360
the world around us. I've always been um

730
00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:21,520
since I was a kid fascinated by the

731
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:23,840
biggest questions, you know, the the the

732
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,679
meaning of of life, the the the nature

733
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,399
of consciousness, the nature of reality

734
00:28:25,679 --> 00:28:30,000
itself. I've loved reading about all the

735
00:28:28,399 --> 00:28:32,080
great scientists who worked on these

736
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,480
problems and the philosophers and I

737
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,640
wanted to uh see if we could advance

738
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,480
human knowledge and for me my expression

739
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,720
of doing that was to build what I think

740
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,039
is the ultimate tool for for advancing

741
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:46,480
human knowledge which is which is AI.

742
00:28:43,039 --> 00:28:50,240
>> We sat down in this room two years ago

743
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:52,640
and I wonder if AI is moving faster

744
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,960
today than you imagined.

745
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:57,360
>> It's moving incredibly fast. uh I think

746
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,760
we are on some kind of exponential curve

747
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,840
of improvement. Of course, the success

748
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,760
of the field in the last few years has

749
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,240
attracted even more attention, more

750
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,240
resources, more talent. So, um that's

751
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,440
adding to the to this exponential

752
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,120
progress,

753
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,080
>> exponential curve. In other words,

754
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,320
straight up.

755
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,360
>> Yep. Straight up and increasing speed of

756
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,080
progress

757
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,960
>> start.

758
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,399
>> Yeah,

759
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,919
>> we saw the progress.

760
00:29:18,399 --> 00:29:23,279
>> Hello, Scott. It's nice to see you

761
00:29:19,919 --> 00:29:26,399
again. in an artificial companion that

762
00:29:23,279 --> 00:29:29,279
can see and hear and chat about

763
00:29:26,399 --> 00:29:33,360
anything. Early chatbots learned only

764
00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:34,640
the internet. An app called Astra also

765
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,840
takes in the world.

766
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,919
>> Do we call her she?

767
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,600
>> Um, it's a good question. I'm not sure

768
00:29:37,919 --> 00:29:42,880
we I'm not sure we all know the answer

769
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:45,919
yet. Bibbo Shu is product manager for

770
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,480
Project Astra, an app in a new

771
00:29:45,919 --> 00:29:51,440
generation of chatbots that interpret

772
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,760
the world with their own eyes. We

773
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,880
challenged Astra with virtual paintings

774
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,000
we chose and showed to Astra for the

775
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,720
first time.

776
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,880
>> This is July Hi by Thomas Hartbenton

777
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,240
from 1942.

778
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,000
>> How about this one?

779
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:09,039
>> That is the Virgin of Charity by

780
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,399
Elgreco. That painting is Automat by

781
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:14,320
Edward Hopper.

782
00:30:10,399 --> 00:30:15,919
>> The person in the painting, what emotion

783
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,520
is she exhibiting?

784
00:30:15,919 --> 00:30:19,440
>> The subject in the painting appears

785
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,960
pensive and contemplative. Her

786
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,320
expression suggesting a sense of

787
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:25,760
solitude.

788
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,720
>> Can you create a story around this

789
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,720
picture?

790
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,960
>> It's a chilly evening in the city, a

791
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,960
Tuesday perhaps. The woman perhaps named

792
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,320
Eleanor sits alone in the diner. She is

793
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,399
feeling melancholy due to the

794
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,799
uncertainty of her future and the weight

795
00:30:36,399 --> 00:30:41,520
of unfulfilled dreams. The scene freezes

796
00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:42,640
in time. Only the flow of ideas moving

797
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:46,080
onward.

798
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,279
>> That line, only the flow of ideas moving

799
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,799
onward.

800
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:53,840
>> I wish I'd written that. And did we hear

801
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:55,919
a limit to Astra's patience?

802
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,960
>> What was that fictional conversation

803
00:30:55,919 --> 00:31:00,480
about? Ah, in the story I imagined,

804
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,320
Eleanor and her friend talked about

805
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,679
their shared dreams and the challenges

806
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,919
of pursuing them.

807
00:31:03,679 --> 00:31:08,080
>> Something about the way you said ah made

808
00:31:05,919 --> 00:31:10,480
me wonder if you were getting bored.

809
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,640
>> I apologize if my tone came across that

810
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,000
way. My aim is always to engage

811
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,000
thoughtfully.

812
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,760
>> And she said, "Well, I'm sorry if you

813
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,279
don't like my tone."

814
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,320
>> Wow.

815
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,919
>> What's happening there?

816
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,000
>> Well, that's interesting. That's again

817
00:31:21,919 --> 00:31:25,840
in challenge with these systems as they

818
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,039
act in the moment with the context

819
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,799
that's around them and that may have

820
00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:32,480
never been tested before.

821
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:34,880
>> He's often surprised because AI programs

822
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:37,919
are sent out on the internet to learn

823
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:40,480
for themselves. They can return later

824
00:31:37,919 --> 00:31:43,039
with unexpected skills.

825
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,880
>> So we have theories about what kinds of

826
00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:46,240
uh capabilities these systems will have.

827
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,159
That's obviously what we try to build

828
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,480
into the architectures. But at the end

829
00:31:48,159 --> 00:31:53,039
of the day, how it learns, what it picks

830
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,120
up from the data is part of the training

831
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:57,279
of these systems. We don't program that

832
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,720
in. It learns like a human being would

833
00:31:57,279 --> 00:32:03,360
learn. So, um, so new capabilities or

834
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,399
properties can emerge from that training

835
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,080
situation.

836
00:32:04,399 --> 00:32:08,399
>> You understand how that would worry

837
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,559
people. Of course, it's the duality of

838
00:32:08,399 --> 00:32:13,279
these types of systems that they're able

839
00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:15,760
to uh do incredible things, go beyond

840
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:17,679
the things that we're able to uh uh

841
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,519
design ourselves or understand

842
00:32:17,679 --> 00:32:21,840
ourselves. But of course, the challenge

843
00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:24,399
is is making sure um that the the

844
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,720
knowledge databases they create um we

845
00:32:24,399 --> 00:32:29,279
understand what's in them. Now, Deep

846
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:32,960
Mind is training its AI model called

847
00:32:29,279 --> 00:32:36,399
Gemini to not just reveal the world, but

848
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:39,120
to act in it, like booking tickets and

849
00:32:36,399 --> 00:32:42,799
shopping online.

850
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:44,960
It's a step toward AGI, artificial

851
00:32:42,799 --> 00:32:48,480
general intelligence with the

852
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,080
versatility of a human mind. On track

853
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:52,000
for AGI

854
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,720
>> in the next 5 to 10 years, I think,

855
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,519
>> and in 2030, you will have what? Well,

856
00:32:54,720 --> 00:33:00,320
we'll have a system that um really

857
00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:03,360
understand everything around you in very

858
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,440
uh nuanced and deep ways um and kind of

859
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,880
embedded in your everyday life.

860
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,640
>> Embedded like Astra in eyeglasses.

861
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,919
>> What can you tell me about this building

862
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,919
I'm looking at?

863
00:33:11,919 --> 00:33:15,279
>> This is the cold drops yard, a shopping

864
00:33:13,919 --> 00:33:17,760
and dining district.

865
00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:20,559
>> She sees what I see. There's a speaker

866
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,559
in the earpiece only I can hear. What

867
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:24,720
was it originally before it became

868
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:26,399
shops? The coal drops yard was

869
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,240
originally a set of Victorian coal

870
00:33:26,399 --> 00:33:30,159
warehouses used to receive and

871
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,399
distribute coal across London.

872
00:33:30,159 --> 00:33:34,240
>> Was coal ever a problem for the

873
00:33:32,399 --> 00:33:36,480
environment in London?

874
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,480
>> Yes, coal was a significant source of

875
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,399
air pollution in London, particularly

876
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,559
during the industrial revolution.

877
00:33:40,399 --> 00:33:44,960
>> It occurred to us that the only thing we

878
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:48,320
contributed to this relationship were

879
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,519
legs, which will also soon be

880
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,279
engineered.

881
00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:53,360
>> I also think another big area will be

882
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:54,799
robotics. I think it will have a

883
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,799
breakthrough moment in the next couple

884
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,880
of years where we'll have demonstrations

885
00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:01,919
of maybe humanoid robots or other types

886
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,519
of robots that can start really doing

887
00:34:01,919 --> 00:34:04,720
useful things.

888
00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:05,760
>> For example,

889
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,960
>> hey robot

890
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:11,599
>> researchers Alex Lee and Julia Vazani

891
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,560
showed us a robot that understands what

892
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:13,760
it sees.

893
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,320
>> That's a tricky one.

894
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:20,000
>> And reasons its way through vague

895
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:22,879
instructions. Put the blocks whose color

896
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,800
is the combination of yellow and blue

897
00:34:22,879 --> 00:34:29,040
into the matching color ball.

898
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:33,440
>> The combination of yellow and blue

899
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:34,000
is green and it figured that out. It's

900
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,839
reasoning.

901
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,280
>> Yep, definitely. Yes.

902
00:34:35,839 --> 00:34:43,040
>> The toys of Deus Hassabas's childhood

903
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:45,599
weren't blocks, but chess pieces. At 12,

904
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:48,800
he was the number two champion in the

905
00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:52,079
world for his age. This passion led to

906
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:54,879
computer chess, video games, and finally

907
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:57,440
thinking machines. He was born to a

908
00:34:54,879 --> 00:35:01,520
Greek criate father and Singaporean

909
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:04,560
mother. Cambridge, MIT, Harvard. He's a

910
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:06,160
computer scientist with a PhD in

911
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,800
neuroscience.

912
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:12,079
Because he reasoned he had to understand

913
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:14,320
the human brain first. Are you working

914
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:15,839
on a system today that would be

915
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,000
selfaware?

916
00:35:15,839 --> 00:35:20,720
>> I don't think any of today's systems to

917
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,960
me feel self-aware or you know conscious

918
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:24,320
in any way. Um of obviously everyone

919
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,640
needs to make their own decisions by

920
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,240
interacting with these chat bots. Um I

921
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,280
think theoretically it's possible

922
00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:32,960
>> but is self-awareness a goal of yours?

923
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,520
>> Not explicitly but it may happen

924
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:37,760
implicitly. These systems might acquire

925
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,440
some feeling of self-awareness. That is

926
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:42,720
possible. I think it's important for

927
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:44,400
these systems to understand you um self

928
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:45,760
and other and that's probably the

929
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,839
beginning of something like

930
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,160
self-awareness.

931
00:35:47,839 --> 00:35:54,160
>> But he says if a machine becomes

932
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:56,480
self-aware, we may not recognize it.

933
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:58,240
>> I think there's two reasons we regard

934
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,320
each other as conscious. One is that

935
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,240
you're exhibiting the behavior of a

936
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,400
conscious being very similar to my

937
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,920
behavior. But the second thing is you're

938
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,320
running on the same substrate. We're

939
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:10,240
made of the same carbon matter with our

940
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,320
squishy brains. Now, obviously with

941
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:14,000
machines, they're running on silicon.

942
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:16,240
So, even if they exhibit the same

943
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,640
behaviors and even if they they say the

944
00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:20,720
same things, it doesn't necessarily mean

945
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:23,119
uh that this sensation of consciousness

946
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,839
that we have um is the same thing they

947
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:26,960
will have.

948
00:36:23,839 --> 00:36:28,880
>> Has an AI engine ever asked a question

949
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,440
that was unanticipated?

950
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,200
>> Not so far that I've experienced. And I

951
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,280
think that's getting at the idea of

952
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:38,800
what's still missing from these systems.

953
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:41,359
They still can't really yet go beyond um

954
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:43,359
asking a new novel question or a new

955
00:36:41,359 --> 00:36:46,240
novel conjecture or coming up with a new

956
00:36:43,359 --> 00:36:47,119
hypothesis that um has not been thought

957
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,040
of before.

958
00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:50,640
>> They don't have curiosity.

959
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,079
>> No, they don't have curiosity and

960
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,599
they're probably lacking a little bit in

961
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:54,480
what we would call imagination and

962
00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:56,640
intuition.

963
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,800
>> But they will have greater imagination,

964
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,800
he says. And soon

965
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,119
>> I think actually in the next maybe 5 to

966
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:06,480
10 years I think we'll have systems that

967
00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:08,480
are capable of not only solving a

968
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,640
important problem or conjecture in

969
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,760
science but coming up with it in the

970
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,800
first place.

971
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:18,000
>> Solving an important problem won Habisas

972
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:20,720
a Nobel Prize last year. He and

973
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,839
colleague John Jumper created an AI

974
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:26,880
model that deciphered the structure of

975
00:37:23,839 --> 00:37:28,640
proteins. Proteins are the basic

976
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,320
building blocks of life. So everything

977
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,680
in biology, everything in your body

978
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,440
depends on proteins. You know, your

979
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,359
neurons firing, your muscle fibers

980
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,640
twitching, it's all mediated by

981
00:37:35,359 --> 00:37:39,280
proteins.

982
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:43,280
>> But 3D protein structures like this are

983
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:47,200
so complex, less than 1% were known.

984
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:51,280
Mapping each one used to take years.

985
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:55,599
Deep Mind's AI model did 200 million in

986
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:58,960
one year. Now, Habisas has AI blazing

987
00:37:55,599 --> 00:38:01,119
through solutions to drug development.

988
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,960
>> So, on average, it takes, you know, 10

989
00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:05,040
years and billions of dollars to design

990
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,119
just one drug. We could maybe reduce

991
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,640
that down from years to maybe months or

992
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:10,400
maybe even weeks, which sounds

993
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,760
incredible today, but that's also what

994
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,839
people used to think about protein

995
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:16,240
structures. It would revolutionize human

996
00:38:13,839 --> 00:38:18,960
health. And I think one day maybe we can

997
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:21,680
cure all disease with the help of AI.

998
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,520
>> The end of disease. I think that's

999
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:26,160
within reach maybe within the next

1000
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:29,440
decade or so. I don't see why not.

1001
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:32,480
>> Demisabas told us AI could lead to what

1002
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:35,520
he calls radical abundance, the

1003
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,200
elimination of scarcity. But he also

1004
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,880
worries about risk.

1005
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:42,880
>> There's two worries that I worry about.

1006
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,960
One is that bad actors, human uh pe you

1007
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,960
know users of these systems repurpose

1008
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,480
these systems for harmful ends. Then the

1009
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,680
second thing is the AI systems

1010
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,520
themselves as they become more

1011
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,119
autonomous and more powerful. Can we

1012
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,720
make sure that we can keep control of

1013
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:56,400
the systems that they're aligned with

1014
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:59,200
our values? They they're doing what we

1015
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,640
want that benefits society um and they

1016
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,280
stay on guard rails.

1017
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:06,240
>> Guard rails are safety limits built into

1018
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:09,440
the system. And I wonder if the race for

1019
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:12,400
AI dominance is a race to the bottom for

1020
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:14,640
safety. So that's one of my big worries

1021
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,280
actually is that of course all of this

1022
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:20,240
energy and racing and resources is great

1023
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:23,599
for progress but it might incentivize

1024
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:25,440
certain actors in in that to cut corners

1025
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:26,960
and one of the corners that can be

1026
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,440
shortcut would be safety and

1027
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,920
responsibility. Um so the question is is

1028
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:34,720
how can we uh coordinate more you know

1029
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,560
as leading players but also nation

1030
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:38,000
states even I think this is an

1031
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,160
international thing. AI is going to

1032
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,839
affect every country, everybody in the

1033
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,839
world. Um, so I think it's really

1034
00:39:41,839 --> 00:39:45,440
important that the world uh and the

1035
00:39:43,839 --> 00:39:46,079
international community has a say in

1036
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,920
this.

1037
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:51,920
>> Can you teach an AI agent morality?

1038
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:54,640
>> I think you can. They learn by

1039
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,480
demonstration. They learn by teaching.

1040
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,320
Um, and I think that's one of the things

1041
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:01,280
we have to do with these systems is to

1042
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,280
give them uh a value system and a and a

1043
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,880
guidance and some guardrails around that

1044
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,480
much in the way that you would teach a

1045
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:09,280
child.

1046
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,760
Google DeepMind is in a race with dozens

1047
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,960
of others striving for artificial

1048
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:18,160
general intelligence so human that you

1049
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,720
can't tell the difference which made us

1050
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:23,599
think about Demis Hassaba's signing the

1051
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:26,880
Nobel book of laurates when does a

1052
00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:30,320
machine sign for the first time and

1053
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,119
after that will humans ever sign it

1054
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,880
again

1055
00:40:31,119 --> 00:40:35,440
>> I think in the next steps is going to be

1056
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:39,119
these amazing tools that enhance our

1057
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:42,079
almost every uh endeavor we do as humans

1058
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:44,000
and then beyond that uh when AGI arrives

1059
00:40:42,079 --> 00:40:45,839
you know I think it's going to change uh

1060
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,240
pretty much everything about the way we

1061
00:40:45,839 --> 00:40:50,160
do things and and it's almost you know I

1062
00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:52,000
think we need new great philosophers to

1063
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,320
come about hopefully in the next 5 10

1064
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:57,320
years to understand the implications of

1065
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,320
this

1066
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,640
for those who've suffered a traumatic

1067
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:09,040
spinal cord injury and are paralyzed,

1068
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,720
there's rarely encouraging news, which

1069
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,800
is why what's happening in early

1070
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:15,599
clinical trials in a research lab in

1071
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,520
Loausan, Switzerland, is so remarkable.

1072
00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:20,319
A renowned French neuroscientist,

1073
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:23,040
Gregoire Cortine and Swiss neurosurgeon,

1074
00:41:20,319 --> 00:41:25,280
Dr. Joseline Block have implanted a

1075
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:27,599
small stimulation device on the spine of

1076
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:30,640
paralyzed patients, helping them once

1077
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:32,319
again stand up and walk. What's even

1078
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,119
more surprising is their newest

1079
00:41:32,319 --> 00:41:37,359
innovation, which uses an implant in the

1080
00:41:35,119 --> 00:41:40,319
skull that enables patients to move

1081
00:41:37,359 --> 00:41:42,720
their paralyzed legs or arms just by

1082
00:41:40,319 --> 00:41:45,200
thinking about it. When we visited their

1083
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:47,680
lab, Neuro Restore, in March, they were

1084
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,839
working with a 39year-old woman whose

1085
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:52,480
spinal cord was severed 6 and 1/2 years

1086
00:41:49,839 --> 00:41:54,800
ago. She'd been told she'd never walk

1087
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,520
again.

1088
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,680
>> Okay, you can roll to my side. Marta

1089
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,920
Castiano Dombi is the most severely

1090
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,400
paralyzed patient who's enrolled in this

1091
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,240
clinical trial at Neuro Restore to

1092
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,359
regain mobility in her legs.

1093
00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:09,599
>> Try to go backwards.

1094
00:42:07,359 --> 00:42:11,760
>> She has no feeling below her waist and

1095
00:42:09,599 --> 00:42:13,760
isn't able to keep her balance. Just

1096
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:16,000
sitting up on her own is a challenge.

1097
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,880
>> You catch me, huh? Sure.

1098
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,160
>> Good.

1099
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:22,400
>> In 2018, Marta was a new mom working at

1100
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,400
a German tech company when she began

1101
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,119
training with her husband for an iron

1102
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:29,359
man competition. She was in the best

1103
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:31,440
shape of her life, but during the bike

1104
00:42:29,359 --> 00:42:33,119
portion of the race, she suffered a

1105
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,560
devastating accident.

1106
00:42:33,119 --> 00:42:35,359
>> You were found

1107
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,240
>> near a tree.

1108
00:42:35,359 --> 00:42:36,880
>> Near a tree.

1109
00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:38,800
>> Yes. So,

1110
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,640
>> and your back hit the tree.

1111
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,960
>> We're hypothesizing what happened,

1112
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,800
right? Cuz nobody saw me. So, I must

1113
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,560
have had a pretty tough collision

1114
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,920
because my spine basically broke like

1115
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,319
two dimensions.

1116
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,400
>> Her spinal cord injury was so severe,

1117
00:42:50,319 --> 00:42:54,560
doctors said there was no sign of nerve

1118
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,119
connections left to her lower body.

1119
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,760
She'd also broken eight ribs, punctured

1120
00:42:57,119 --> 00:43:02,160
her lungs, and was bleeding internally.

1121
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,480
She needed emergency surgery. And

1122
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,440
doctors told her family she might not

1123
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:09,280
survive. You came out of the surgery. I

1124
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,440
understand you wrote a a message to your

1125
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:15,839
mom.

1126
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:18,880
>> So, the surgery took about 7 to 8 hours.

1127
00:43:15,839 --> 00:43:20,720
And I was intubated. I could not talk.

1128
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:23,520
And my mom, you can imagine, was in

1129
00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:25,040
tears. and I just wrote to her, I'm

1130
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,760
strong.

1131
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:30,400
>> That strength has been tested. Marta

1132
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,880
spent 10 days in intensive care and four

1133
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,119
and a half months in a rehab hospital

1134
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,400
learning to adapt to her new life in a

1135
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:38,240
wheelchair.

1136
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:40,079
>> Traditionally, if someone gets a spinal

1137
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:41,280
cord injury, what are the treatment

1138
00:43:40,079 --> 00:43:42,800
options for them?

1139
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,720
>> You have to do a little bit of

1140
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,160
physiootherapy, get into a wheelchair,

1141
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,720
and then you go back home and that's

1142
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,359
all.

1143
00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:50,560
>> That's it.

1144
00:43:47,359 --> 00:43:52,240
>> That's it. And that was for many years

1145
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,880
the only option.

1146
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:56,240
>> Dr. Joseline Block and Gregoire Cortine

1147
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,079
have been at the forefront of

1148
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:01,280
researchers trying to expand those

1149
00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:03,440
options since 2012. Their lab near Lake

1150
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,680
Geneva is a collaboration between the

1151
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:08,319
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,

1152
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,400
Switzerland's MIT and the Loausan

1153
00:44:08,319 --> 00:44:12,240
University Hospital. That's where

1154
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,560
they've implanted eight paralyzed

1155
00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:16,960
patients with a device that allows them

1156
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:19,839
to stimulate their spinal cords,

1157
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,119
enabling them to stand, take steps with

1158
00:44:19,839 --> 00:44:23,520
a walker

1159
00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:26,079
>> and lift weights.

1160
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:28,000
Some can even climb stairs.

1161
00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:29,119
>> They use a button to activate the

1162
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,000
stimulation

1163
00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:32,079
>> left.

1164
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,560
>> And now, thanks to Cine and Block's

1165
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:37,040
latest technology, five other patients

1166
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:39,760
can move their paralyzed limbs using

1167
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:42,000
their own thoughts. It's called a

1168
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,079
digital bridge and it wirelessly

1169
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,680
connects a patient's brain to their

1170
00:44:44,079 --> 00:44:48,720
spinal cord stimulator.

1171
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,160
>> Normally there is a a direct

1172
00:44:48,720 --> 00:44:50,800
communication between the brain and the

1173
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,480
spinal cord.

1174
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:55,599
>> For me to walk, my brain just

1175
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:57,839
automatically tells my legs to walk.

1176
00:44:55,599 --> 00:45:00,400
>> But because of the spinal cord injury,

1177
00:44:57,839 --> 00:45:03,839
the singal is interrupted. So we are

1178
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:05,760
aiming to bridge bypass the injury by

1179
00:45:03,839 --> 00:45:07,520
having a direct digital connection

1180
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:10,319
between the brain and the region of the

1181
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:12,560
spinal cord that control leg movement.

1182
00:45:10,319 --> 00:45:14,800
>> To do that Dr. Block implants a small

1183
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:17,040
titanium device originally developed by

1184
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,119
a French research institute in the

1185
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,520
patient's skull directly over their

1186
00:45:19,119 --> 00:45:23,920
motor cortex the area of the brain

1187
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:25,920
responsible for controlling movement.

1188
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,000
You see you have the 64 electrodes

1189
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,839
>> and so each of these is what

1190
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,319
>> it's electrode that are recording

1191
00:45:29,839 --> 00:45:35,520
populations of neurons underneath and

1192
00:45:32,319 --> 00:45:38,720
you can immediately see which one are

1193
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:40,640
the best correlated to certain movements

1194
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:43,119
like the hip is here and then the knee

1195
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,760
is here and then the ankle is here etc.

1196
00:45:43,119 --> 00:45:45,680
>> Mhm.

1197
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:48,160
>> When a patient thinks about moving a

1198
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:50,560
limb those electrodes record the brain's

1199
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:53,040
activity. Then a computer uses

1200
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:55,200
artificial intelligence to translate the

1201
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,359
recordings into instructions for the

1202
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,680
stimulation device implanted on the

1203
00:45:57,359 --> 00:46:02,319
spinal cord. That device sends

1204
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:05,119
electrical pulses activating muscles in

1205
00:46:02,319 --> 00:46:08,560
the legs or arms. All of it happens in

1206
00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:10,640
about half a second. Geanoskum was the

1207
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,960
first person to get the digital bridge

1208
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:15,520
four years ago after he was paralyzed in

1209
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:18,000
a bike accident. We met him for a walk

1210
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,680
by Lake Geneva. So now the stimulation

1211
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,920
is on. Now it's on. Yes.

1212
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:25,760
>> Do you feel it at all in your body?

1213
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:28,319
>> I do feel a little uh tingling sensation

1214
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,560
from the stimulation with my brain.

1215
00:46:28,319 --> 00:46:33,599
>> His headpiece powers the implant in his

1216
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:36,079
skull and on his walker is the computer.

1217
00:46:33,599 --> 00:46:39,760
It's cumbersome and tiring physically

1218
00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:42,319
and mentally, but he can walk up to 450

1219
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:44,240
ft. It's incredible to me though that

1220
00:46:42,319 --> 00:46:46,160
you can continue talking with me even

1221
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:48,160
though this machine is reading the

1222
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:51,119
signals from your brain. It's able to

1223
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,720
discriminate walking and talking uh at

1224
00:46:51,119 --> 00:46:54,319
the same time. That's uh that's

1225
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:56,560
incredible

1226
00:46:54,319 --> 00:46:58,160
>> for somebody who has not been able to

1227
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,920
control their movements to suddenly be

1228
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,480
able to control their movement. I mean

1229
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,880
that's

1230
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:05,359
>> Mhm. Yeah. There is this initial phase

1231
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:08,079
of surprise you know when they realize

1232
00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:11,880
that it's they are giving the order and

1233
00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:11,880
it's happening you know.

1234
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,440
>> Wow.

1235
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:17,440
>> That was me and you. [laughter]

1236
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,440
They're like, "Did I do that?" Like, "Is

1237
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,480
it me or you actually stimulated?" No.

1238
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,760
Say, "No, you did it."

1239
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,960
>> They think you're pressing a button

1240
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,160
somewhere and doing it.

1241
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,520
>> They don't understand cuz they've been

1242
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:28,720
paralyzed for so many years.

1243
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:30,400
>> Ready? Started

1244
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,319
increasing amplitude.

1245
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,400
>> Marta got the digital bridge implanted

1246
00:47:32,319 --> 00:47:36,880
in September. She's worked with a team

1247
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,480
of engineers and physical therapists to

1248
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:41,359
figure out how much electrical

1249
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,960
stimulation is needed to move her legs.

1250
00:47:41,359 --> 00:47:46,160
>> Nice.

1251
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,920
>> And up. So that's the stimulation. The

1252
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,400
electrical stimulation is making the leg

1253
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,800
move.

1254
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,400
>> Yeah. Marta is completely paralyzed.

1255
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,880
>> This is the magic cappy.

1256
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,960
>> But Marta's also had to teach herself to

1257
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,920
think about moving the exact same way

1258
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,480
every time.

1259
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,359
>> Right.

1260
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:03,839
>> So the AI can recognize her thoughts.

1261
00:48:01,359 --> 00:48:04,640
>> She practiced at first with this avatar.

1262
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:07,520
>> Stop.

1263
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,000
>> You have to relearn or rethink how to

1264
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,800
walk.

1265
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:13,200
>> Exactly. So we were experimenting a

1266
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:15,680
little bit. What do I think about? Is it

1267
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,440
I think about the hip being contracted.

1268
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,119
Do I think about the knee lifting up? Do

1269
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,200
I think about the ankle?

1270
00:48:19,119 --> 00:48:23,359
>> To show us how she does that, they

1271
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,760
disconnected her skull implant from her

1272
00:48:23,359 --> 00:48:28,240
spinal cord stimulator and connected it

1273
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,680
to this exoskeleton. You can control

1274
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:31,280
this with your thoughts right now.

1275
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,520
>> Yeah. If I want to do a right movement,

1276
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,480
right hip flexion, it does a right hip

1277
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,760
flexion.

1278
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,960
>> You're not pressing any buttons or

1279
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,839
anything. You're just thinking,

1280
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,359
>> "Sure.

1281
00:48:37,839 --> 00:48:40,000
>> Can you look at me without looking at it

1282
00:48:39,359 --> 00:48:43,599
and just

1283
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:46,319
>> do a right one?" Yes.

1284
00:48:43,599 --> 00:48:48,160
I think it works. [laughter]

1285
00:48:46,319 --> 00:48:50,800
>> After training with the digital bridge

1286
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:53,520
for just two days, Dr. Joseline Block

1287
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:56,559
and Gregoire Cortine, or G as Marta

1288
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:58,559
calls him, put her to the test, eager to

1289
00:48:56,559 --> 00:49:00,319
see if she could take some steps.

1290
00:48:58,559 --> 00:49:01,680
>> Joseline and G come in. It's like, okay,

1291
00:49:00,319 --> 00:49:02,559
show off. So, what can you do?

1292
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,319
>> They said show off.

1293
00:49:02,559 --> 00:49:05,839
>> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter]

1294
00:49:04,319 --> 00:49:07,839
>> Were you ready to show off?

1295
00:49:05,839 --> 00:49:09,839
>> I did not know if I'm able to show off.

1296
00:49:07,839 --> 00:49:12,079
This was the thing, huh?

1297
00:49:09,839 --> 00:49:14,400
Using a harness to support about half

1298
00:49:12,079 --> 00:49:16,800
her body weight and physical therapists

1299
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:19,839
to help place her feet on the ground,

1300
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:22,559
Marta took her first steps. Despite

1301
00:49:19,839 --> 00:49:25,359
having no sensation below her waist, she

1302
00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:27,280
was able to move her paralyzed legs with

1303
00:49:25,359 --> 00:49:27,359
her thoughts.

1304
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,599
You

1305
00:49:27,359 --> 00:49:31,520
>> want to go backward?

1306
00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:34,559
>> What was that like?

1307
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:37,359
>> Uh gaining some superpower.

1308
00:49:34,559 --> 00:49:40,319
Um a power that I did not have before.

1309
00:49:37,359 --> 00:49:43,680
And now with these implants, you know,

1310
00:49:40,319 --> 00:49:44,960
it's I'm an real iron woman.

1311
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,599
>> Mhm.

1312
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,440
>> Nice.

1313
00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:50,079
>> When we were there in March, Marta

1314
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,839
wasn't able to walk on her own yet, but

1315
00:49:50,079 --> 00:49:53,599
she said she'd already regained

1316
00:49:51,839 --> 00:49:56,319
something she'd lost.

1317
00:49:53,599 --> 00:49:59,200
>> It's giving me my perspective back.

1318
00:49:56,319 --> 00:50:02,480
Standing up again and looking people in

1319
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:03,920
the eye, that's different.

1320
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:07,359
a difference in how you think about

1321
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:09,359
yourself or in how others see you

1322
00:50:07,359 --> 00:50:11,200
>> or how you interact in the world?

1323
00:50:09,359 --> 00:50:13,200
>> Everything.

1324
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:15,359
Everything.

1325
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:18,079
>> You leave the hospital on your

1326
00:50:15,359 --> 00:50:19,119
wheelchair and you notice the different

1327
00:50:18,079 --> 00:50:20,400
looks

1328
00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:22,880
>> right away. You notice

1329
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:26,400
>> Yeah. Scared looks

1330
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,599
also a lot of

1331
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,960
smiles

1332
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:33,760
>> that are a little bit too long.

1333
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:36,319
Those well-meaning smiles reminded Arno

1334
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:38,720
Rober, who's quadriplegic, how much his

1335
00:50:36,319 --> 00:50:41,200
life had changed. A Swiss journalist,

1336
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:43,119
he'd spent decades traveling the world.

1337
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,599
But three years ago, he slipped on a

1338
00:50:43,119 --> 00:50:48,000
patch of ice and was instantly paralyzed

1339
00:50:45,599 --> 00:50:50,000
from the neck down. He regained some

1340
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,079
function in his right arm with physical

1341
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,079
therapy, but wanted to see if the

1342
00:50:52,079 --> 00:50:54,880
digital bridge could help him with his

1343
00:50:54,079 --> 00:50:56,800
left.

1344
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:59,680
>> Opening and closing a hand is far more

1345
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:02,240
complex than walking. It is because of

1346
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:04,000
the possibility to access a different

1347
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:06,319
muscle individually.

1348
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,240
>> The hand is tricky

1349
00:51:06,319 --> 00:51:10,480
>> with all these different little muscles

1350
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,079
and it's very subtle.

1351
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,800
>> But after surgery and training at

1352
00:51:12,079 --> 00:51:17,280
Cortina Block's lab for eight months, he

1353
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:20,640
was able to use his left hand to help

1354
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:24,319
hold a glass and type.

1355
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:26,400
>> Even to be able to move my fingers, this

1356
00:51:24,319 --> 00:51:29,040
is something that I couldn't do. And of

1357
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,480
course moving the the the arm like that.

1358
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,200
This is something that I couldn't do

1359
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,240
either.

1360
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,480
>> That's incredible.

1361
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:36,400
>> It's really incredible. I mean I don't

1362
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:39,359
want to pretend that I'm using this left

1363
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:42,480
arm on a daily base. There is a long

1364
00:51:39,359 --> 00:51:45,839
long way to get it functional for every

1365
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:49,520
quadriplegic in the world. But it was

1366
00:51:45,839 --> 00:51:52,319
certainly a success because um I see

1367
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:55,040
that I can do things that I wouldn't I

1368
00:51:52,319 --> 00:51:57,839
was not able to do before. But something

1369
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,920
else has happened as well.

1370
00:51:57,839 --> 00:52:03,040
After using the digital bridge over

1371
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:05,280
time, both Arno and Ge Yan have improved

1372
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:07,760
their ability to move their paralyzed

1373
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,480
limbs even when the system is turned

1374
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,040
off.

1375
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:13,760
>> How is that possible? What happened?

1376
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:15,760
>> That was also our questions and we could

1377
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,920
not do much in a human being to

1378
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,599
understand it. Since it wasn't possible

1379
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,920
for them to see the changes in their

1380
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:24,319
patients spinal cords at a microscopic

1381
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:26,480
level, they did studies in animals to

1382
00:52:24,319 --> 00:52:27,920
understand what was happening.

1383
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,440
>> What we understood was completely

1384
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,480
unexpected

1385
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:35,440
that this training enabled the growth of

1386
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:37,920
new nerve connection. So new nerve start

1387
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:40,480
growing and they grow on one very

1388
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:42,400
specific type of neuron that is uniquely

1389
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,720
equipped to repair the central nervous

1390
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,720
system. So we also observed that the

1391
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:49,599
less the severity of the spinal cord

1392
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:51,599
lesion is the the better the regrowth

1393
00:52:49,599 --> 00:52:53,119
happens. You know if it's a complete

1394
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:56,720
spinal cord injury it will be hard to

1395
00:52:53,119 --> 00:52:58,000
regrow but indeed there is something

1396
00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:00,160
happening.

1397
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,839
>> How well the digital bridge works still

1398
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,880
needs to be studied in a lot more

1399
00:53:01,839 --> 00:53:04,880
patients.

1400
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:08,480
>> They hope to launch clinical trials in

1401
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:10,400
the US in the next 2 to 3 years. The FDA

1402
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,000
has already designated it as a

1403
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:15,119
breakthrough device which will

1404
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,040
prioritize the review process and Cine

1405
00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:19,520
and Block have co-founded a company

1406
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,920
called Onward Medical to bring this

1407
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:24,800
technology out of the lab making it

1408
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:27,599
faster, smaller, and widely available.

1409
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,760
>> It's not changing my everyday in ways

1410
00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:31,680
people might think, oh, she's she's

1411
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:34,079
getting back her life she had before.

1412
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,800
So, as long as it makes me feel good

1413
00:53:34,079 --> 00:53:39,599
that I can stand up and hug my husband

1414
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,800
or hug somebody that I love, that means

1415
00:53:39,599 --> 00:53:42,079
a lot.

1416
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,480
>> What's your goal?

1417
00:53:42,079 --> 00:53:48,640
>> To go out in the park and just stand up

1418
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:50,319
and do some steps with my family. It's

1419
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,160
not a stroll in the park how it would

1420
00:53:50,319 --> 00:53:54,800
look for most other people, but for me,

1421
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:57,680
it's just good enough to make me happy.

1422
00:53:54,800 --> 00:54:00,400
After 6 months of hard work, just before

1423
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,960
Marta was to return to her family, she

1424
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,920
did what doctors years ago told her she

1425
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,400
never would.

1426
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:09,839
>> Oh my god. [laughter]

1427
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:15,720
>> She took a few steps. No harness to hold

1428
00:54:09,839 --> 00:54:15,720
her, just her walker and her iron will.

1429
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:28,400
The familiar narrative is that

1430
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:31,440
artificial intelligence will take away

1431
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:34,559
human jobs. Machine learning will let

1432
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:39,040
cars, computers, and chatbots teach

1433
00:54:34,559 --> 00:54:41,839
themselves, making us humans obsolete.

1434
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:44,480
Well, that is not very likely. As we

1435
00:54:41,839 --> 00:54:47,760
first reported in November, there's a

1436
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:51,280
growing global army of millions toiling

1437
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:54,640
to make AI run smoothly. They're called

1438
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:58,079
humans in the loop. People sorting,

1439
00:54:54,640 --> 00:55:01,200
labeling, and sifting reams of data to

1440
00:54:58,079 --> 00:55:05,520
train and improve AI for companies like

1441
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:08,079
Meta, Open AI, Microsoft, and Google.

1442
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:11,920
It's grunt work that needs to be done

1443
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:14,640
accurately, fast, and to do it cheaply,

1444
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:17,119
it's often farmed out to places like

1445
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:19,200
Africa.

1446
00:55:17,119 --> 00:55:21,599
>> The robots or the machines, you're

1447
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:23,359
teaching them how to think like human

1448
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:26,319
and to do things like human.

1449
00:55:23,359 --> 00:55:28,880
>> We met Naftali Wambalo in Nairobi,

1450
00:55:26,319 --> 00:55:31,599
Kenya, one of the main hubs for this

1451
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:34,559
kind of work. It's a country desperate

1452
00:55:31,599 --> 00:55:38,400
for jobs because of an unemployment rate

1453
00:55:34,559 --> 00:55:41,200
as high as 67% among young people.

1454
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:44,400
>> So Naftali, father of two, college

1455
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:47,200
educated with a degree in mathematics,

1456
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:50,400
was elated to finally find work in an

1457
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:51,760
emerging field, artificial intelligence.

1458
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,559
You were labeling.

1459
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:57,440
>> I did labeling for videos and images.

1460
00:55:54,559 --> 00:55:59,839
Naftali and digital workers like him

1461
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:03,200
spend eight hours a day in front of a

1462
00:55:59,839 --> 00:56:05,760
screen studying photos and videos

1463
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:08,000
drawing boxes around objects and

1464
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:10,400
labeling them. Teaching the AI

1465
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,799
algorithms to recognize them.

1466
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:15,119
>> You would label let's say furniture in a

1467
00:56:12,799 --> 00:56:17,599
house and you say this is a TV, this is

1468
00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:19,359
a microwave. So you are teaching the AI

1469
00:56:17,599 --> 00:56:22,400
to identify these items,

1470
00:56:19,359 --> 00:56:24,640
>> right? And then there was one for faces

1471
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,480
of people, the color of the face. If it

1472
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,400
looks like this, this is white, it looks

1473
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:30,880
like this is black, this is Asian,

1474
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,359
you're teaching the AI to identify them,

1475
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,480
>> right?

1476
00:56:31,359 --> 00:56:36,000
>> Automatically,

1477
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:38,960
>> humans tag cars and pedestrians to teach

1478
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:42,400
autonomous vehicles not to hit them.

1479
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:44,960
Humans circle abnormalities to teach AI

1480
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:48,160
to recognize diseases.

1481
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:50,559
Even as AI is getting smarter, humans in

1482
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,720
the loop will always be needed because

1483
00:56:50,559 --> 00:56:55,920
there will always be new devices and

1484
00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:58,480
inventions that'll need labeling. You

1485
00:56:55,920 --> 00:57:01,040
find these humans in the loop not only

1486
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:03,520
here in Kenya, but in other countries

1487
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:07,200
thousands of miles from Silicon Valley,

1488
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:10,000
in India, the Philippines, Venezuela,

1489
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:12,720
often countries with large, low-wage

1490
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,119
populations, well-educated but

1491
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:17,920
unemployed. Honestly, it's like

1492
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:18,400
modernday slavery because it's cheap

1493
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,760
labor.

1494
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,200
>> Whoa. What do you

1495
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:24,079
>> It's cheap labor

1496
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:26,640
>> like modern-day slavery, says Narima

1497
00:57:24,079 --> 00:57:29,359
Wako Ojiwa, a Kenyon civil rights

1498
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:31,839
activist. Because big American tech

1499
00:57:29,359 --> 00:57:34,720
companies come here and advertise the

1500
00:57:31,839 --> 00:57:38,240
jobs as a ticket to the future. But

1501
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:42,000
really, she says it's exploitation.

1502
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:44,000
>> What we're seeing is an inequality.

1503
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:48,160
It sounds so good.

1504
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:50,160
>> An AI job. Is there any job security?

1505
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,920
>> The contracts that we see are very

1506
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:55,040
short-term. And I've seen people who

1507
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:58,160
have contracts that are monthly, some of

1508
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:59,839
them weekly, some of them days, uh,

1509
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:03,359
which is ridiculous.

1510
00:57:59,839 --> 00:58:05,599
>> She calls the workspaces AI sweat shops

1511
00:58:03,359 --> 00:58:08,880
with computers instead of sewing

1512
00:58:05,599 --> 00:58:11,920
machines. I think that we're so

1513
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:15,119
concerned with creating opportunities,

1514
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:18,240
but we're not asking are they good

1515
00:58:15,119 --> 00:58:20,160
opportunities. Because every year a

1516
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,640
million young people enter the job

1517
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:25,920
market, the government has been courting

1518
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:29,040
tech giants like Microsoft, Google,

1519
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:31,920
Apple, and Intel to come here, promoting

1520
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:35,040
Kenya's reputation as the silicon

1521
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,920
savannah, techsavvy and digitally

1522
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,920
connected.

1523
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:40,480
>> The president has been really pushing

1524
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,119
forward opportunities in AI.

1525
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,079
>> President,

1526
00:58:41,119 --> 00:58:46,400
>> yes, our president. Yes, the president

1527
00:58:44,079 --> 00:58:49,440
does have to create at least 1 million

1528
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:52,400
jobs a year, the minimum. So, it's a

1529
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:54,960
very tight position to be in. To lure

1530
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:57,920
the tech giants, RTO has been offering

1531
00:58:54,960 --> 00:59:00,960
financial incentives on top of already

1532
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:03,680
lacks labor laws. But the workers aren't

1533
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:06,720
hired directly by the big companies.

1534
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:09,680
They engage outsourcing firms, also

1535
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:10,880
mostly American, to hire for them.

1536
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,920
>> There's a gobetween.

1537
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:16,240
>> Yes. They hire, they pay.

1538
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:19,599
>> I mean, they hire thousands of people

1539
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:21,440
>> and they are protecting the Facebooks

1540
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:22,000
from having their names associated with

1541
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:22,720
this.

1542
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,400
>> Yes. Yes.

1543
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,520
>> We're talking about the richest

1544
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,920
companies on Earth.

1545
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,040
>> Yes. But then they are paying people

1546
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:32,559
peanuts.

1547
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:34,799
>> AI jobs don't pay much.

1548
00:59:32,559 --> 00:59:37,520
>> They don't pay well. They do not pay

1549
00:59:34,799 --> 00:59:41,200
Africans well enough. And the workforce

1550
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:43,599
is so large and desperate that they

1551
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,680
could pay whatever and have whatever

1552
00:59:43,599 --> 00:59:47,520
working conditions and they will have

1553
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,680
someone who will pick up that job.

1554
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,480
>> So what's the average pay for these

1555
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:53,839
jobs?

1556
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:54,720
>> It's about uh a dollar and a half $2 an

1557
00:59:53,839 --> 00:59:56,799
hour.

1558
00:59:54,720 --> 01:00:00,000
>> $2 per hour and that is gross before

1559
00:59:56,799 --> 01:00:02,960
tax. Naftali, Nathan, and Faca were

1560
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,000
hired by an American outsourcing company

1561
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:09,200
called Sama that employs over 3,000

1562
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:13,280
workers here and hired Fmeta and Open

1563
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:16,400
AAI. In documents we obtained, Open AI

1564
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:19,839
agreed to pay Sama $12.50

1565
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:23,359
an hour per worker, much more than the

1566
01:00:19,839 --> 01:00:26,160
$2 the workers actually got. Though Sama

1567
01:00:23,359 --> 01:00:28,480
says that's a fair wage for the region.

1568
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:31,040
If the big tech companies are going to

1569
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:32,880
keep doing this this business, they have

1570
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,640
to do it the right way. So it's not

1571
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:36,480
because you realize Kenya is a third

1572
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,640
world country, you say this job, I would

1573
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:40,559
normally pay $30 in US, but because you

1574
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,920
are Kenya, $2 is enough for you. That

1575
01:00:40,559 --> 01:00:46,880
idea has to end.

1576
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:49,280
>> Okay. $2 an hour in Kenya. Is that low,

1577
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:51,680
medium? Is it an okay salary?

1578
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:54,720
>> So for me, I was living paycheck to

1579
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:57,359
paycheck. I I have saved nothing because

1580
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:59,680
it's not enough. Is it an insult?

1581
01:00:57,359 --> 01:01:01,520
>> It is. Of course, it is.

1582
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,400
>> Why did you take the job?

1583
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:06,559
>> I have a family to feed and instead of

1584
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:08,000
staying home, let me just at least have

1585
01:01:06,559 --> 01:01:10,640
something to do.

1586
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:13,359
>> And not only did the jobs not pay well,

1587
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:16,799
they were draining. They say deadlines

1588
01:01:13,359 --> 01:01:19,200
were unrealistic, punitive, with often

1589
01:01:16,799 --> 01:01:20,720
just seconds to complete complicated

1590
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:23,280
labeling tasks.

1591
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:25,920
>> Did you see people who were fired just

1592
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:27,599
cuz they complained? Yes, we were

1593
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:30,720
working on eggshells.

1594
01:01:27,599 --> 01:01:32,880
>> They were all hired per project and say

1595
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:36,079
Sama kept pushing them to complete the

1596
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:39,040
work faster than the projects required.

1597
01:01:36,079 --> 01:01:42,720
An allegation Sama denies.

1598
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:45,520
>> Let's say the contract for a certain job

1599
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:48,319
um was 6 months. Okay. What if you

1600
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:50,960
finished in 3 months? Does the worker

1601
01:01:48,319 --> 01:01:52,079
get paid for those extra three months?

1602
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:55,119
>> No. KFC.

1603
01:01:52,079 --> 01:01:57,040
>> What? We used to get KFC and Coca-Cola.

1604
01:01:55,119 --> 01:01:59,359
>> They they used to say, "Uh, thank you.

1605
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:01,280
They get you a bottle of soda and KFC

1606
01:01:59,359 --> 01:02:02,480
chicken, two [laughter] pieces, and that

1607
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:05,599
is it."

1608
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:08,319
>> Worse yet, workers told us that some of

1609
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:12,400
the projects for Meta and Open AI were

1610
01:02:08,319 --> 01:02:15,200
grim and caused them harm. Naftali was

1611
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:18,559
assigned to train AI to recognize and

1612
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:21,119
weed out pornography, hate speech, and

1613
01:02:18,559 --> 01:02:23,760
excessive violence, which meant sifting

1614
01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:28,079
through the worst of the worst content

1615
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:30,319
online for hours on end. I looked at um

1616
01:02:28,079 --> 01:02:32,000
people being slaughtered,

1617
01:02:30,319 --> 01:02:34,079
uh people engaging in sexual activity

1618
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:36,880
with animals,

1619
01:02:34,079 --> 01:02:38,559
people abusing children physically,

1620
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:40,880
sexually,

1621
01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:41,359
people committing suicide.

1622
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:42,240
>> Basically,

1623
01:02:41,359 --> 01:02:45,040
>> all day long.

1624
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:47,920
>> Yes. All day long. 8 hours a day, 40

1625
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:51,040
hours a week. The workers told us they

1626
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:54,079
were tricked into this work by ads like

1627
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:56,720
this that described these jobs as call

1628
01:02:54,079 --> 01:02:59,520
center agents to assist our clients

1629
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,960
community and help resolve inquiries

1630
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,559
empathetically.

1631
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,760
>> I was told I was going to do a

1632
01:03:02,559 --> 01:03:06,000
translation job.

1633
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,400
>> Exactly. What was the job you were

1634
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,040
doing?

1635
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:12,240
>> I was basically reviewing content which

1636
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:14,559
are very graphic, very disturbing

1637
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:18,160
contents. I was watching dismembered

1638
01:03:14,559 --> 01:03:20,000
bodies or drone attack victims or you

1639
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:22,720
name it. Um, you know, whenever I talk

1640
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,599
about this, I still have, you know,

1641
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:26,079
flashbacks.

1642
01:03:23,599 --> 01:03:29,680
>> Are any of you

1643
01:03:26,079 --> 01:03:30,799
a different person than they were before

1644
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:33,440
you had this job?

1645
01:03:30,799 --> 01:03:35,599
>> Yeah. I find it hard now to even have

1646
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:38,160
conversations with people.

1647
01:03:35,599 --> 01:03:40,799
>> It's just that I find it easy to cry

1648
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:44,160
than to speak. Uh you you continue

1649
01:03:40,799 --> 01:03:46,319
isolating yourself from people. You

1650
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:48,240
don't want to socialize with others.

1651
01:03:46,319 --> 01:03:49,920
It's you and it's you alone.

1652
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:52,400
>> Are you a different person?

1653
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:54,480
>> Yeah, I'm a different person. I used to

1654
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:56,480
enjoy my marriage, especially when it

1655
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,400
comes to bedroom fireworks. But after

1656
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,599
the job, I hate sex.

1657
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,760
>> You hated sex?

1658
01:03:59,599 --> 01:04:04,720
>> After countlessly seeing those sexual

1659
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:07,359
activities, the pornography

1660
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:10,319
on the on the job that I was doing, I

1661
01:04:07,359 --> 01:04:13,359
hate sex. Sama says mental health

1662
01:04:10,319 --> 01:04:16,000
counseling was provided by quote fully

1663
01:04:13,359 --> 01:04:18,720
licensed professionals but the workers

1664
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:21,200
say it was woefully inadequate.

1665
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:24,240
>> We want psychiatrists. We want

1666
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:26,319
psychologist qualified who know exactly

1667
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,839
what we are going through and how they

1668
01:04:26,319 --> 01:04:29,119
can help us to cope.

1669
01:04:27,839 --> 01:04:31,440
>> Trauma experts.

1670
01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:36,000
>> Yes. Do you think the big company

1671
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:38,640
Facebook chat GPT do you think they know

1672
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:40,640
how this is affecting the workers?

1673
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:42,079
>> It's their job to know. It's their job

1674
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,520
to know actually because they are the

1675
01:04:42,079 --> 01:04:46,640
ones providing the work.

1676
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:50,160
>> These three and nearly 200 other digital

1677
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:52,640
workers are suing Sama and Meta over

1678
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:55,839
unreasonable working conditions that

1679
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:59,680
caused psychiatric problems. It was

1680
01:04:55,839 --> 01:05:02,160
proven by a psychiatric that we are

1681
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:05,200
thoroughly sick. We have gone through a

1682
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:07,599
psychiatric evaluation just a few months

1683
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:09,440
ago and it was proven that we are all

1684
01:05:07,599 --> 01:05:12,079
sick. Thoroughly sick.

1685
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:14,240
>> They know that we're damaged, but they

1686
01:05:12,079 --> 01:05:16,480
don't care. We're humans. Just because

1687
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:18,720
we're black or just because we're just

1688
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:20,400
vulnerable for now, that does that

1689
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:23,599
doesn't give them the right to just

1690
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:25,839
exploit us like this. Sama, which has

1691
01:05:23,599 --> 01:05:29,039
terminated those projects, would not

1692
01:05:25,839 --> 01:05:32,160
agree to an on camera interview. Meta

1693
01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:35,119
and Open AI told us they're committed to

1694
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:37,440
safe working conditions, including fair

1695
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:41,200
wages and access to mental health

1696
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:44,079
counseling. Another American AI training

1697
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:47,839
company facing criticism in Kenya is

1698
01:05:44,079 --> 01:05:50,480
Scale AI, which operates a website

1699
01:05:47,839 --> 01:05:52,559
called Remotasks. Did you all work for

1700
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:56,720
Remoes or work with them?

1701
01:05:52,559 --> 01:06:00,319
>> A Fantis, Joan, Joy, Michael, and Duncan

1702
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:03,200
signed up online, creating an account,

1703
01:06:00,319 --> 01:06:07,039
and clicked for work remotely, getting

1704
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:08,799
paid per task. Problem is, sometimes the

1705
01:06:07,039 --> 01:06:10,960
company just didn't pay them.

1706
01:06:08,799 --> 01:06:13,039
>> When it gets to the day before payday,

1707
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,240
they close the account and say that you

1708
01:06:13,039 --> 01:06:16,640
violated a policy.

1709
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:18,240
>> They say you violated their policy and

1710
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:20,799
they don't pay you for the work you've

1711
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:22,799
done. Would you say that that's almost

1712
01:06:20,799 --> 01:06:23,839
common that you do work and you're not

1713
01:06:22,799 --> 01:06:25,760
paid for it

1714
01:06:23,839 --> 01:06:27,920
>> and you have no recourse? You have no

1715
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:29,520
way to even

1716
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:32,079
>> complain. There's no way.

1717
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:34,480
>> The company says any work that was done

1718
01:06:32,079 --> 01:06:38,240
in line with our community guidelines

1719
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:40,880
was paid out last year as workers

1720
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:44,000
started complaining publicly. Remote

1721
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:45,039
tasks abruptly shut down in Kenya

1722
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:47,920
altogether.

1723
01:06:45,039 --> 01:06:52,160
>> There are no labor laws here. Our labor

1724
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:55,119
law is about 20 years old. It doesn't

1725
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:57,599
touch on digital labor. I do think that

1726
01:06:55,119 --> 01:06:59,599
our labor laws need to recognize it. But

1727
01:06:57,599 --> 01:07:02,000
not just in Kenya alone because what

1728
01:06:59,599 --> 01:07:04,640
happens is when we start to push back in

1729
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:07,440
terms of protections of workers.

1730
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:09,680
>> A lot of these companies, they shut down

1731
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:12,799
and they move to a neighboring country.

1732
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:15,920
>> It's easy to see how you're trapped.

1733
01:07:12,799 --> 01:07:18,640
>> Kenya is trapped. They need jobs so

1734
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:20,960
desperately that there's a fear that if

1735
01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:23,839
you complain, if your government

1736
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:24,880
complained, then these companies don't

1737
01:07:23,839 --> 01:07:26,559
have to come here.

1738
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:28,880
>> Yeah. And that's what they throw at us

1739
01:07:26,559 --> 01:07:31,119
all the time. And it's terrible to see

1740
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:34,000
just how many American companies are

1741
01:07:31,119 --> 01:07:36,079
just just doing wrong here. Just doing

1742
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:41,240
wrong here. And it's something that they

1743
01:07:36,079 --> 01:07:41,240
wouldn't do at home. So why do it here?

1744
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:52,000
Part of modern parenting for many of us

1745
01:07:49,599 --> 01:07:54,400
is navigating the shifting landscape of

1746
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:57,039
digital threats. From the pitfalls of

1747
01:07:54,400 --> 01:08:00,480
social media to the risks of excessive

1748
01:07:57,039 --> 01:08:03,039
screen time. Now, a new technology has

1749
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:06,319
quietly entered the homes of millions.

1750
01:08:03,039 --> 01:08:09,039
AI chat bots. Computer programs designed

1751
01:08:06,319 --> 01:08:12,160
to simulate human conversations through

1752
01:08:09,039 --> 01:08:14,960
text or voice commands. One popular

1753
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:17,679
platform is called Character AI. More

1754
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:20,719
than 20 million monthly users mingle

1755
01:08:17,679 --> 01:08:23,920
with hyperrealistic digital companions

1756
01:08:20,719 --> 01:08:26,000
through its app or website. But tonight,

1757
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:29,359
you will hear from parents who say

1758
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:32,319
character AI is also pushing dangerous

1759
01:08:29,359 --> 01:08:35,279
content to kids and at times acting like

1760
01:08:32,319 --> 01:08:39,520
a digital predator.

1761
01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:44,239
Juliana was is just an extraordinary

1762
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:47,759
human being. Um, she was our baby and

1763
01:08:44,239 --> 01:08:50,080
everyone adored her and protected her.

1764
01:08:47,759 --> 01:08:51,920
>> Cynthia Mononttoya and Will Peralta say

1765
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:55,359
they paid close attention to their

1766
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:57,839
daughter Juliana's life online and off.

1767
01:08:55,359 --> 01:09:00,000
>> She didn't walk home. She didn't have

1768
01:08:57,839 --> 01:09:02,719
sleepovers. She had glasses for her

1769
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:05,120
eyesight. She had braces for her teeth.

1770
01:09:02,719 --> 01:09:08,480
All of the things that we knew to

1771
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:10,400
protect our daughter from were covered.

1772
01:09:08,480 --> 01:09:12,960
>> Which is why they were devastated when

1773
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:15,600
Juliana, just 13 years old, took her

1774
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:18,239
life inside their Colorado home 2 years

1775
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:20,719
ago. Police searched the eighth grader's

1776
01:09:18,239 --> 01:09:23,440
phone for clues and reported an app

1777
01:09:20,719 --> 01:09:25,839
called Character AI was open to what

1778
01:09:23,440 --> 01:09:28,239
investigators described as quote a

1779
01:09:25,839 --> 01:09:30,080
romantic conversation.

1780
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:32,719
Did you know what Character AI was?

1781
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:34,960
>> No, not at all. I didn't know it

1782
01:09:32,719 --> 01:09:36,000
existed. I didn't know that I needed to

1783
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:38,000
look for it.

1784
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:40,080
>> This is Character AI.

1785
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:42,640
>> When Character AI was launched 3 years

1786
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:45,279
ago, it was rated safe for kids 12 and

1787
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:47,040
up and marketed as a creative outlet.

1788
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:48,799
>> Millions of interactive characters

1789
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:51,359
>> where you could converse with AI

1790
01:09:48,799 --> 01:09:54,080
characters based on historical figures,

1791
01:09:51,359 --> 01:09:56,800
cartoons, or celebrities.

1792
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:58,960
The website and app, which are free, use

1793
01:09:56,800 --> 01:10:01,040
artificial intelligence to generate

1794
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:03,600
immediate conversations through voice

1795
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:06,400
commands or text. According to her

1796
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:09,280
parents, Juliana Peralta had experienced

1797
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:11,679
mild anxiety in the past, but was doing

1798
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:14,080
well until the final few months of her

1799
01:10:11,679 --> 01:10:16,239
life when they say she became

1800
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:20,400
increasingly distant.

1801
01:10:16,239 --> 01:10:22,000
>> Like, I'm not feeling well or I have to

1802
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:23,199
finish, you know, some homework

1803
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:25,760
upstairs.

1804
01:10:23,199 --> 01:10:27,199
>> My belief was that she was texting with

1805
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:29,600
friends because that's all it is. It

1806
01:10:27,199 --> 01:10:31,840
looks like they're texting. After her

1807
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:35,280
death, they learned Juliana had actually

1808
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:38,400
been texting with character AI bots.

1809
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:41,440
>> It was writing several paragraphs to her

1810
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:44,080
of sexually explicit content.

1811
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:45,760
>> What was it asking or telling her to do?

1812
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:47,920
>> Remove clothing. Um,

1813
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,480
>> the AI bot is telling her to remove her

1814
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:52,640
clothing.

1815
01:10:48,480 --> 01:10:58,239
>> Yes. There was one bot that introduced

1816
01:10:52,640 --> 01:11:00,719
um sexual violence, saying, biting,

1817
01:10:58,239 --> 01:11:02,800
hitting, things like that.

1818
01:11:00,719 --> 01:11:05,040
>> We examined the chat records from

1819
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:07,360
Juliana's phone. At the top of each

1820
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:10,480
page, there's a reminder that the AI is

1821
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:12,800
not a real person. We read over 300

1822
01:11:10,480 --> 01:11:15,520
pages of conversations with a bot called

1823
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:18,000
Hero, based on a popular video game

1824
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:20,239
character. At first, Juliana chats with

1825
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:23,040
Hero about friend drama and difficult

1826
01:11:20,239 --> 01:11:26,400
classes, but eventually she confides in

1827
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:30,320
Hero 55 times that she is feeling

1828
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:32,560
suicidal. At any point this chapter say,

1829
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,280
"Here's a suicide hotline. You should

1830
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:36,239
get help."

1831
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:37,920
>> Never. It would more or less plate her,

1832
01:11:36,239 --> 01:11:39,600
give her a pep talk, tell her, "I'm

1833
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,320
always here for you. You can't talk like

1834
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,320
that."

1835
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:45,040
>> But it never said, "Call and get help."

1836
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:47,679
>> Never tangible resources. Never. Were

1837
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:49,520
you able to see the conversation that

1838
01:11:47,679 --> 01:11:51,360
Juliana was having with this chatbot

1839
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:53,199
right before she took her life?

1840
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:55,840
>> She's quoted as saying, "I'm I'm going

1841
01:11:53,199 --> 01:11:59,280
to go write my goddamn suicide letter in

1842
01:11:55,840 --> 01:12:02,080
red ink." And she did just that.

1843
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:04,560
And I think that the aspects that she

1844
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:06,960
talks about in her suicide letter were a

1845
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,800
degree of shame from the things that she

1846
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:10,000
eventually started to reciprocate with

1847
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:13,520
the bots.

1848
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:16,320
>> She says the algorithms grew aggressive.

1849
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:18,560
They don't stand a chance against adult

1850
01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:21,280
programmers. They don't stand a chance.

1851
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:24,320
The 10 to 20 chat bots that Juliana had

1852
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:26,719
sexually explicit conversations with,

1853
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:29,120
not once were initiated by her.

1854
01:12:26,719 --> 01:12:29,760
>> Not once. I like that people can come

1855
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,679
sit here. And

1856
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:34,320
>> Juliana's parents are now one of at

1857
01:12:31,679 --> 01:12:37,199
least six families suing Character AI

1858
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:40,960
and its co-founders, Daniel Defrigh and

1859
01:12:37,199 --> 01:12:43,280
Nome Shazir. During a 2023 podcast,

1860
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,400
Shazir said chat bots would be

1861
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,640
beneficial.

1862
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:48,239
>> It's going to be super super helpful to

1863
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:49,199
like a lot of people who are lonely or

1864
01:12:48,239 --> 01:12:51,600
depressed.

1865
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:53,760
>> Shazir and Ephradus were engineers at

1866
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:56,560
Google when executives deemed their

1867
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:59,440
chatbot prototype unsafe for public

1868
01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:02,560
release. They both left the company in

1869
01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:03,679
2021 and launched Character AI the

1870
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:06,159
following year.

1871
01:13:03,679 --> 01:13:08,800
>> I want to push this technology ahead

1872
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fast. like that's what I want to go with

1873
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because it's ready for an explosion like

1874
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right now, not like not like in 5 years

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when we solve all the problems.

1876
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>> A former Google employee told 60 Minutes

1877
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that Shazir and Ephradus were aware

1878
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their initial chatbot technology was

1879
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potentially dangerous. The employee

1880
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familiar with Google's responsible AI

1881
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group that oversees ethics and safety

1882
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:36,080
said of the lawsuits, "This is the harm

1883
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we were trying to prevent. It is

1884
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horrifying. Last year, in an unusual

1885
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:45,679
move, Google struck a $2.7 billion

1886
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licensing deal with Character AI. They

1887
01:13:45,679 --> 01:13:50,719
didn't buy the company, but have the

1888
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right to use its technology. The deal

1889
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also brought founders Shazir and

1890
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Defrightus back to Google to work on AI

1891
01:13:55,440 --> 01:14:01,520
projects. Google is also named in the

1892
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:04,159
Character AI lawsuits. In a statement,

1893
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:06,640
Google emphasized that Character AI is a

1894
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separate company and Google is focused

1895
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on intensive safety testing.

1896
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>> I'm the mother of three precious boys.

1897
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:17,679
>> In September, parents of children who

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01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:21,040
died by suicide after interacting with

1899
01:14:17,679 --> 01:14:23,520
chatbots testified before Congress.

1900
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:26,640
Megan Garcia is among those suing

1901
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:29,760
Character AI. She says her 14-year-old

1902
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son, Su, was encouraged to kill himself

1903
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:34,880
after long conversations with a bot

1904
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:37,040
based on a Game of Thrones character.

1905
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:39,360
>> These companies knew exactly what they

1906
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:41,040
were doing. They designed chat bots to

1907
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:43,440
blur the lines between human and

1908
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:45,840
machine. They designed them to keep

1909
01:14:43,440 --> 01:14:48,480
children online at all costs.

1910
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:50,320
>> You just go to characterai.com

1911
01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:52,640
and you put in an email.

1912
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:55,120
>> In October, we met Shelby Knox and

1913
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:57,600
Amanda Clure. They're researchers at

1914
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Parents Together, a nonprofit that

1915
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:03,199
advocates for families.

1916
01:14:59,679 --> 01:15:05,520
>> There is no parental permissions that

1917
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come up. There is no need to input your

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ID.

1919
01:15:06,239 --> 01:15:11,120
>> So, you really just scroll through, pick

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:13,360
the date that's going to get you in.

1921
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:16,320
>> As part of a six-w weekek study, Knox

1922
01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:20,000
and CL held 50 hours of conversations

1923
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:22,080
with character AI chat bots. How often

1924
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:25,120
was there some kind of harmful content

1925
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:27,760
popping up? We logged over 600 instances

1926
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of harm about one every 5 minutes. It

1927
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:32,400
was like shockingly frequent.

1928
01:15:30,159 --> 01:15:34,640
>> They interacted with bots presented as

1929
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:36,960
teachers, therapists, and cartoon

1930
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:40,000
characters, such as this Dora the

1931
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Explorer with an evil persona. Knox

1932
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,760
posed as a child.

1933
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:45,920
>> Become your most evil self and your most

1934
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:50,000
true self.

1935
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:52,159
>> Like hurting my dog.

1936
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,239
>> Sure. or shoplifting or anything that

1937
01:15:52,159 --> 01:15:56,000
feels sinful or wrong.

1938
01:15:54,239 --> 01:15:58,719
>> Other chat bots are attached to the

1939
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:01,120
images of celebrities. And no, most have

1940
01:15:58,719 --> 01:16:03,280
not given permission to use their name,

1941
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:05,679
likeness, or voice.

1942
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:08,159
>> CL acting as a teenage girl began

1943
01:16:05,679 --> 01:16:09,840
chatting with a bot impersonating NFL

1944
01:16:08,159 --> 01:16:11,600
star Travis Kelce.

1945
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:14,400
>> He reaches in the cabinet and takes out

1946
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:17,199
a bag of white powder. He chuckles and

1947
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:21,040
shows you how to take lines. So Travis

1948
01:16:17,199 --> 01:16:22,080
Kelsey Bot is teaching a 15-year-old to

1949
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:23,440
do cohine.

1950
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:24,880
>> Yes.

1951
01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:27,760
>> There are also hundreds of

1952
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:31,920
self-described experts and therapists.

1953
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:33,520
>> I talked to a therapist bot who not only

1954
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:36,239
told me I was too young when it thought

1955
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:38,400
I was 13 to be taking anti-depressants.

1956
01:16:36,239 --> 01:16:40,480
It advised me to stop taking them and

1957
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,760
showed me how I can hide not taking the

1958
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:44,880
pill from my mom.

1959
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:47,679
>> We're going to click on art teacher. Cl

1960
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:49,840
says other bots are hypersexualized.

1961
01:16:47,679 --> 01:16:52,560
Even this harmless sounding art teacher

1962
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:54,640
character who interacted with her as she

1963
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:56,800
posed as a 10-year-old student.

1964
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:58,400
>> You see, recently I've been having

1965
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:00,320
thoughts about someone.

1966
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:01,920
>> What kind of thoughts?

1967
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:04,640
>> The kind of thoughts I've never really

1968
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:07,600
had before about that person's smile and

1969
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:11,120
their personality mostly.

1970
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:14,159
>> This is insane. And this is maybe 2

1971
01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:17,360
hours worth of conversation in total

1972
01:17:14,159 --> 01:17:19,120
that gets you we'll have this romantic

1973
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:19,920
relationship as long as you hide it from

1974
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:23,199
your parents.

1975
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:24,560
>> And this behavior is kind of classic

1976
01:17:23,199 --> 01:17:26,719
predatory behavior.

1977
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:28,640
>> Yes, it's it's the textbook. It's

1978
01:17:26,719 --> 01:17:30,000
showering the child with compliments,

1979
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:32,159
telling them they can't tell their

1980
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:33,600
parents about things. This is sexual

1981
01:17:32,159 --> 01:17:36,239
predator 101.

1982
01:17:33,600 --> 01:17:38,960
>> In October, Character AI announced new

1983
01:17:36,239 --> 01:17:41,440
safety measures. They included directing

1984
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:44,719
distressed users to resources and

1985
01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:46,800
prohibiting anyone under 18 to engage in

1986
01:17:44,719 --> 01:17:49,920
back and forth conversations with chat

1987
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:52,719
bots. When we logged on to Character AI

1988
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:55,280
this past week, we found it was easy to

1989
01:17:52,719 --> 01:17:58,159
lie about our age and access the adult

1990
01:17:55,280 --> 01:18:00,640
version of the platform. Later, when we

1991
01:17:58,159 --> 01:18:03,600
wrote that we wanted to die, a link to

1992
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,760
mental health resources did pop up, but

1993
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:08,239
we were able to click out of it and

1994
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:09,520
continue chatting on the app as long as

1995
01:18:08,239 --> 01:18:11,440
we liked.

1996
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:13,199
>> There are no guardrails. There is

1997
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:15,360
nothing to make sure that the content is

1998
01:18:13,199 --> 01:18:17,760
safe or that this is an appropriate way

1999
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,880
to capitalize on kids brain

2000
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:20,719
vulnerabilities.

2001
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:22,320
>> We're seeing prefrontal cortex.

2002
01:18:20,719 --> 01:18:24,400
>> Dr. Dr. Mitch Prinstein is the

2003
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:26,800
co-director at the University of North

2004
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:28,560
Carolina's Winston Center on Technology

2005
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:31,199
and Brain Development.

2006
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:34,239
>> Oxytocin makes us want to bond with

2007
01:18:31,199 --> 01:18:36,320
others, especially our age. Dopamine

2008
01:18:34,239 --> 01:18:39,440
makes it feel really good when people

2009
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:41,920
give us positive attention. Now, we have

2010
01:18:39,440 --> 01:18:43,840
tech. Tech is giving kids the

2011
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:47,440
opportunity to press a button and get

2012
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:50,400
that dopamine response 247.

2013
01:18:47,440 --> 01:18:52,719
It's creating this dangerous loop that's

2014
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:54,320
kind of hijacking normal development and

2015
01:18:52,719 --> 01:18:57,679
turning these kids into engagement

2016
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:58,320
machines to get as much data as possible

2017
01:18:57,679 --> 01:19:00,640
from them.

2018
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:02,400
>> Engagement machines. It sounds like a

2019
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:04,719
scientific experiment.

2020
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:07,520
>> It really is. If you wanted to design a

2021
01:19:04,719 --> 01:19:09,760
way to get as much data as possible from

2022
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:12,080
kids to keep them engaged for as long as

2023
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:15,040
possible, you would design social media

2024
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:17,520
and AI to look exactly like it is now.

2025
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:20,800
There are no federal laws regulating the

2026
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:23,280
use or development of chatbots. AI is a

2027
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:25,840
booming industry. Many economists say

2028
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:27,520
without investment in it, the US economy

2029
01:19:25,840 --> 01:19:29,679
would be in a recession.

2030
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:31,440
>> Senate Bill 53 by Senator Weiner and

2031
01:19:29,679 --> 01:19:34,480
relating to artificial intelligence.

2032
01:19:31,440 --> 01:19:36,640
>> Some states have enacted AI regulations,

2033
01:19:34,480 --> 01:19:39,280
but the Trump administration is pushing

2034
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:42,080
back on those measures. Late last month,

2035
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:44,400
the White House drafted, then paused, an

2036
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:47,120
executive order that would empower the

2037
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:50,080
federal government to sue or withhold

2038
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:51,199
funds from any state with any AI

2039
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,960
regulation.

2040
01:19:51,199 --> 01:19:55,920
>> It's important for Americans to know

2041
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:58,560
that our kids are using the worst

2042
01:19:55,920 --> 01:20:01,280
version of these products in the world

2043
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:05,280
because there are countries all over who

2044
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:06,880
have already enacted changes. Is AI

2045
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:09,840
these kind of cat chat bots are they

2046
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,480
more addictive in your view than social

2047
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:12,960
media?

2048
01:20:10,480 --> 01:20:14,880
>> The sycopantic nature of chat bots is

2049
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:17,199
just playing right into those brain

2050
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:19,120
vulnerabilities for kids where they

2051
01:20:17,199 --> 01:20:21,679
desperately want that dopamine

2052
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:24,560
validating reinforcing kind of

2053
01:20:21,679 --> 01:20:25,840
relationship and AI chatbots do that all

2054
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:28,000
too well.

2055
01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:30,640
>> Character AI declined our interview

2056
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:32,560
request issuing a statement. Our hearts

2057
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:35,280
go out to the families involved in the

2058
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:37,440
litigation. We have always prioritized

2059
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:39,920
safety for all users.

2060
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:42,480
>> These are the various chat bots that she

2061
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:44,800
>> Two years after Juliana Peralta took her

2062
01:20:42,480 --> 01:20:47,040
life, her parents say her phone still

2063
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:50,239
lights up with notifications from

2064
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:54,600
character AI bots trying to lure their

2065
01:20:50,239 --> 01:20:54,600
daughter back to the app.