"AI Will Take Art, Then Jobs, Then Everything Else" - Tristan Harris

The gist

1. Harris calls this the intelligence curse: when GDP comes from AI rather than human labor, governments lose incentive to fund education or healthcare.
2. AI companies are building toward full labor replacement, not augmentation, because owning every job is the only way to capture the full economic prize.
3. Harris says historical data puts political instability at around 20% unemployment, a threshold mass AI job loss could hit across multiple countries at once.
4. Harris argues there is currently no plan to manage a technology being deployed faster than any in history, making this a civilization-scale gamble.