Tucker Carlson and Chamath Explore AI’s Most Dangerous Risk: A Tool of Government Censorship and Surveillance Tucker: “The awesome power that AI gives governments and other concentrations of power over the population is a concern, particularly in the United States where we have a Bill of Rights.” “And it seems to me it would be important, and I never hear it raised, to put in some guardrails that protect the average powerless person against surveillance or having his rights taken away.” Chamath: “This is the absolute biggest risk in the future.” “When you have these really powerful models, the reality is the incentive for governments to try to infiltrate the information cycle, they will not be able to hold themselves back.” “And then what comes with that is a lack of privacy, a total loss of privacy, and then a push toward censorship.” “So as these AIs become more powerful, we have to marry it with a set of technologies that can preserve privacy and preserve access to monetary resources.” “There's nothing you can do today, nothing online, that is not tracked.” “Now we have sets of rules that say that tracking can't be shared.” “I'll give you an example. I decide to buy a very sugary cereal. That is not shared with my insurance company that underwrites my health insurance.” “And there's all kinds of laws that prevent that, but that's just a flimsy law. That's a moment in time that could change. If that decision were to change, now my buying patterns become subject to scrutiny.” “The great thing about the US dollar is, when you get a dollar and you put it in your pocket, the physical dollar bill, it is completely fungible.” “Nobody knows what it was used for in the past, nobody can judge how you use it in the present or in the future.” ...