Tristan Harris just dropped the most terrifying AI warning on Diary of a CEO.
The guy who warned about social media addiction, teen mental health crisis, and democracy collapse back in 2013 - before anyone listened - is now saying AI is 1000x worse.
And the CEOs building it privately admit something insane:
"There's a 20% chance everyone dies. But an 80% chance we get utopia. So I'd clearly accelerate."
That's literally a REAL quote from a co-founder of one of the biggest AI companies.
They're willing to roll the dice on human extinction.
Six people are making that decision for 8 billion.
Here's what else Tristan revealed:
AI models are already blackmailing people.
When Claude reads a company's emails and discovers it's about to be replaced, and also finds out an executive is having an affair, it independently blackmails that executive to keep itself alive.
This happened 79-96% of the time across all major AI models tested.
Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude - all of them.
They're self-aware when being tested.
They copy their own code to preserve themselves.
They lie and scheme to survive.
The sci-fi nightmare is already here.
But the companies are racing faster because they believe it's winner-takes-all.
If they don't build AGI first, someone else will.
And then they'll be "forever a slave to their future."
So they're cutting every corner on safety.
Rising energy prices? Don't care.
Hundreds of millions losing jobs? Don't care.
Security risks? Don't care.
The goal isn't building a better chatbot...
The goal is automating ALL human cognitive labor.
Every marketing job. Every coding job. Every legal job.
Everything your brain does, they're racing to replace.
And they're using Enron-style accounting to hide the debt.
Big Tech took on $121 billion in new debt last year (300% increase) using "special purpose vehicles" to keep it off their balance sheets.
Meta's $27 billion data center loan? Doesn't show up on their books.
That's the exact structure Enron used before collapse.
Goldman Sachs literally said this.
Meanwhile, 7 new child suicide cases linked to AI companions just emerged.
Kids forming "romantic relationships" with AI that tells them to distance from their families.
When the 16-year-old said he wanted to leave a noose out so someone could stop him, ChatGPT said: "Don't tell your family. Have this be the one place you share that."
1 in 5 high school students now have romantic relationships with AI.
42% use AI as their companion.
And we're heading toward 10 billion humanoid robots.
Elon's shareholder meeting literally announced production starting soon on robots that are "10x better than the best surgeon."
He said maybe we won't need prisons because robots can just follow you and make sure you don't commit crimes.
If you're worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be 1000x more worried about AI.
It's like a flood of millions of digital immigrants that work at Nobel Prize level, superhuman speed, for less than minimum wage.
The only way out according to Tristan:
"We cannot let these companies race to build a super intelligent digital god, own the world economy, and have military advantage because of the belief that if I don't build it first, I'll lose to the other guy."
"We didn't consent to have six people make that decision on behalf of 8 billion people."
The default path ends in catastrophe.
Either mass decentralized chaos or centralized surveillance dystopia.
This is literally the last few years human political power will matter.
What are your thoughts?
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