Topic: Jared Lanier

At the United Nations, the term "super intelligence" has begun to replace "artificial intelligence" in official discourse, a shift also noted by Mark Zuckerberg. The hosts discuss the Pro-Human Conference, which featured figures like Steve Bannon and tech pioneer Jared Lanier. Lanier, known as the father of virtual reality, provided a unique industry perspective on the dangers of deifying digital systems.

Jared Lanier argues that the tech industry is driven by a "compulsive religion" to create a successor species to humanity. He explains that the "Turing test" is being used to fool people into treating software as living entities, leading to social addictions and political distortions. Lanier suggests that the U.S. adds expensive "illusion" overhead to its AI models, whereas China focuses on cheaper, functional performance because they already have the Communist Party as their "god."