AI is creating specific harms: deepfakes enabling fraud and crime, job displacement, intellectual property violations, perpetuation of bias; these harms are epiphenomena of a deeper race among AI companies to release capabilities as fast as possible (GPT-3→GPT-4 faster than Anthropic's Claude iterations, faster than Stability's releases), racing to entangle themselves with society for competitive advantage.

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Speaker

Tristan Harris

Evidence Quote

the race to sort of release more capabilities as fast as possible to scale from gpt3 to gp4 faster than anthropic can scale from cloud one to cloud two faster than stability can go from their version to the next version... that race to sort of release power and capabilities is what I'm so worried about because those capabilities are directly tied to risk

Source

AI: Grappling with a New Kind of Intelligence | World Science FestivalWorld Science Festival
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:49:40 PM

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