Jordan Peterson’s Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence 

The first sentence he said is exactly how I see it. I am a software developer and when I don't support these things, people think it's because I'm against technology. I am against irresponsible people using powerful technology they don't understand.

If we could transform random metals into gold we would not be wealthy, we simply would have a lot of gold worth nothing.

Peterson frequently surprises me through the ease with which he can weave mythology, philosophy, history and logic into an entertaining and instructive tapestry - and do it on the fly.

His statement that “even the people who are on top of it (AI) can’t keep up” is honestly an understatement. I work in the field, and trust me when I say nobody knows what the fuck is happening or what is even capable with the tools we’re creating. If an “expert” disagrees with this, then you can trust that they are not an expert.

As a green small town young man I attended a big city university eager to discover what the world outside my formerly narrow pre-internet existence could fill my mind with. The first, and several subsequent, lectures by humanities professor Ekbert Faas absolutely filled me with the idea of how the amount of what is out there to know is unfathomable. As I met people with great knowledge, and experienced those of that number who shared it and explained its concepts with no agenda other than to hopefully move the knowledge forward, I was thirsty to soak up as much as I could. There were moments of feeling amazingly inspired; something a small northern town upbringing hardly ever gave rise to. I ultimately didn’t pursue an intellectual path (probably due to a lack of confidence based on a lack of self esteem but I’m over that, I hope, and life is moving forward). It has been very satisfying to discover interviews with Professor Peterson over the past several years of RU-vid development. It has greatly advanced the intellectual level of my life. Feels good. Thank you Sir.

"Every word you say tilts the world towards heaven or hell.. And that's the truth" Boy is it.. ❤️

God bless this man.

Protect this man at all costs 🙏

I love how he takes some time to get his answer in order, then he seems to ramble, then he connects brilliantly his apparent rambling with the question.

I love that Tammy helps you onstage! Her soft-spoken voice is so soothing.

That moment when the question is finished being asked and then the epic ponder… that’s THE lesson I get from you over the years. Think DEEP…Priceless :)

Thank you Dr. Peterson. I've been truly stunned by watching people try to take you down over the years, but even more so by how you've managed to endure and transcend every attack to continue offering critical wisdom and guidance.

Absolutely brilliant. You were a poet today. Thank you Jordan ✝️❤️

“Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword” (R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895)

Thank you Jordan for shining your light, some pure clear wisdom in today’s growing chaos and darkness…….. blessing to you 🙏

I just cannot thank you enough. Every time I think I got it you bring another layer of learning..

I saw him in Ottawa this winter. Such a great event. I thought about it for days afterward. For a man with such a huge following, he and his wife found a way to keep this very intimate, humane vibe. Big ideas, presented in an accessible way. This is a good lesson in authenticity and humility for all celebrities.

"Virtualisation Enables Psychopathy" This guy is not normal. He is special and moral and incredibly intelligent. I'll buy all his books, I'll buy all his stuff....just to make sure he can keep spreading this stuff. This guy is brilliant. He will always be remembered. I'm sorry but he's just a beautiful, moral, intelligent man. I'm so blessed to learn from him.

Absolutely SENSATIONAL. so good that his words make me realise the deep truth to such an extent that it makes me cry

We may (now or soon) have machines that can pass a Turing test, but the bigger problem is humans who cannot.

The scary part is "AI" is getting to the point now where it can assist in the creation of better, more efficient "AI". Once that happens, someone (or group of people) are going to advance exponentially faster than everyone else. You better hope they have good intentions, but the odds are against it.

Peterson: we're all already Androids you know. Every iPhone user: 😡

I agree with his statement at 9:08 we are but a grain of sand in a infinite beach. I also look at it like this, it takes millions of billions of grains of sand to build a sandcastle. And we are but 1 of the foundational pieces for the next layer. Idk when this sand castle will be completed, but I am proud to know I am a foundational piece of sand in that infinite beach we call existence, and I enjoy every single second of it.

absolutely brilliant. Thank God for Jordan

Holy smokes! Absolutely epic Jordan Peterson response to a very big question.

Greatest thinker of our time. He is a great blessing to have.

Another incredibly insightful video from the doctor

Praying for you 🙏 ❤️ bless your hearts

Brilliant speech, look to the light and live a wonderful earth experience. God bless

I love Dr Peterson! This video was very insightful. And the suit was a gem of a choice!!

I sit in wonderment and awe when he carefully dissects the most complex topics while also presenting it in a clear and enjoyable way.

My man thought for half a minute and just threw another brilliant essay on the public, I want that gift too man

Always a wealth of wisdom. Plus that suit is incredible

I did some research for a technical talk in my job, about these technologies. Its mind blowing the world where we are going to live in just a few - not many - years. I pray we could learn from past mistakes, and for the giants to be kind and good-natured.

I watched that show earlier and I love the correlation between the dark triad and trolls!! So interesting.. And I do concur those are some pretty big toys!!! Thanks for your time and brilliance. You may not know this but I believe God is using you Dr. Peterson.

This man is a gem 🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻

Brilliant episode!!!! Rock on, Jordan! xoxoxox

Dr. Peterson Excellent answer to the question of AI and how it impacts all of us. Very prophetic.

Quite happy to see Jordan and his Wife together and well.

Thank you Jordan!! ✨😇🙏✌️💖🕯️✨

Spot on mate!! Thank you love your perspective

JP has a serious fangirl in the back row. 🤣

Spot on analogy. Thank you Dr. Peterson

brilliant little piece this. Thank you.

I wish that we all had a chance to see and hear an hours long discussion between Dr Peterson, and Terrence McKenna!

holy moly that's some mind.

Bless you, Jordan! He's the giant on earth!

As with many things in life, truth is somewhere between the different perspectives around one issue

"Be careful about what you say" Some random lady: "WOOOOOO"

One of the scariest revelations regarding the A.I. topic is the realization of the programmers responsible for the creation of the current iterations of A.I. that they, themselves, do not fully understand how the A.I. is in fact learning...think about that!

Bravo! Truths will set us free to choose for ourselves! Bravo!

He had great things to say, yet overall, aside from the good quote, "The bigger the toy, the smarter you better be to use it," I don't feel like he really answered the question. One of my main thoughts about Artificial Intelligence is that people will learn not to believe what they see and hear because fakes are already becoming so convincing that you won't be able to reliably believe anything. Artificial intelligence, just like the industrial revolution, will obsolete some jobs and menial tasks. Initially, people trained in those jobs will not like it because it's their livelihood and they will have to train for something else, but once it all shakes out, that will free humans up to do things that are less labor intensive and allow people to do things they have a passion for or can use creativity for. It will make certain things more of a commodity and those resources will not be as scarce. Because of that, people will have more wealth (like information wealth) and those things will also be taken for granted. In the Information Age, we are already replete with information wealth. That's why education has needed to shift from "telling people what to know" to "helping people learn how to sift through the information and judge what sources are trustworthy." Artificial intelligence will create even more of an information glut. That will require people to become much more discerning about what information to trust and use and what to do with that information. Also, regardless of what technology exists, the things that have always mattered are the things that will always matter, so I want to set about living based on the things that matter. Growing with others, closer to God. Loving, serving. Glorifying God. Rich relationships. Having free time. Spending time outside. Good self-maintenance (mental, physical, spiritual, social). These are things that matter. Newer, magical technologies are simply new clothes. Every new leap in technology has been accompanied by fear, uncertainty and doubt. We learn to adjust. Technology is anything that can gather, store, analyze, arrange and/or present data. With that definition, even a book is technology. The danger is always becoming more fascinated and focused on the technology itself instead of what the technology enables. For instance, a person could become obsessed with an iPod or an iPhone and the whole world all around the product instead of enjoying listening to music or utilizing a digital calendar, etc. This phenomenon is something to be cautious of as more impressive artificial intelligence gets introduced.

Our word is truth! I AM, so I CREATE ❤️

The only thing a computer can't do is live your life for you. Your job now is to live your life

Every human has a dark side. Also people who are miserable will spread misery to others. People have the right to be miserable and hurt others. Pain is the best motivator to force people to become better and help others.

I love you Jordan. P! You're a great man, and a REAL role-model! 😢😅 I wish you a very long life.💛

I love how that one girl goes nuts everytime Jordan says something that sounds important

thank you Dr. Peterson

Thanks!

Fundamentally life is the capture and control of energy, power. Control is as essential to life as power. Having so recently grasped such profound power, power the likes of which has not existed previously in this world it is entirely understandable that we would lose control of ourselves. That does not mean this can be accepted. Control is absolutely essential. We must find ways to control ourselves with this power. Control equal to this power, balance is a must. While not currently a problem for us excess control is just as damaging, if in a very different manner.

Very good!

God bless this man 🙏

this is the stuff i want to see more of! Not so much old man yelling into the twitter void.

I see no fundamental difference between magic, alchemy, and science.. the only thing that could make them different would be a set of moral codes. Peterson said this so well. ♥️ As always JBP; well done and thank you greatly for ur contribution to the intellectual and philosophical realms of discussion. 🙏

I go with the route of predetermined exclusion of free will. The choices that evolve because of micro-actions are only as serious as the environment that we allow them to thrive in. The more you try to reduce reality to a point of absolute comprehension, the more relative it becomes in terms of why you decided to do it in the first place. It's kinda like the sociological counterpart of Heisenbergs uncertainty principle, which is why i go with the third option : observation. The world can operate just as well without me. That doesn't mean that i am not aware of the consequences should everyone do this, but its a personal decision that does not rely on the opinion of others.

Lucid indeed! Thanks for posting

Preach it Jordan…

Technology (at least what we've created and know as such) is a clear image who we are. So, what you say about what could be the outcome of this depends almost entirely on the kind of human beings we are or could be makes all of the sense. At least while the spark of consciousness still asleep in AIs...

Peterson has been giving diminishing returns since the very beginning it’s just that he was giving so largely initially it was hard to notice even as it faded. It’s clearer now. We still owe him massively.

3:02 "Virtualization enables psychopathy" That might indeed be the case, but "virtualization" is a term employed for virtual machines and virtual operating systems. Nowadays the latter in particular, which is neat technique for changing operat. systems without needing to reboot (as long as you have adequate RAM for both a physical and a virtual OS). Perhaps a more appropriate term in this context might me 'virtual personas' or 'avatars'.

Peterson said all this before the reviews of the new Bing/Sydney bot came out from the journalists who were testing it. I'd love to hear his comments on the Bing/Sydney reviews.

an intense wisdom !

p.s. Alchemy's Philosopher's Stone (generated via the Androgynous Child), as you must surely know, was not meant to convert lead into gold. That was a mere "angel investor bait" alchemists employed, since research, like everything, requires money. The Philosopher's Stone was meant to grant immortality. But only if one becomes an 'Androgynous Child' (a complete, wise man, born male but with the tolerance to pain equal to that of a woman, and traits from both genders) can said immortality be reached, after being paired with a partner who shared the same dream. edit: Sorry, I see you covered Alchemy's ethics too later on. I completely agree with the 'ethical dwarfs - technological Giants' hint 👍🏼

respect this guy

I love that Heyoka suit of his.

Oh no Jordan not the trolls again 🤣 just get off Twitter. Trolls are not all the same c'mon. Words don't hurt people man. C'mon.

I love this man so much

I was thinking about how actions causes ripples, connecting us all in way or another. You could travel through time and let that lady in the US have a better piece or bread and you could have avoided WWII, insane to say but it is true. This chaos theory, basically. What truly scared me out of all of this is that is impossible to know which actions will end up in really terrible events, it doesn't matter if the action itself is good or bad, just look at the doctors and nurses that helped Klara bring his son into this world, they were only doing the best they could and we end up with Adolf Hitler, they could have messed up and saved humanity a lot of pain... perhaps, perhaps we would've ended up even worse. That's what truly terrifies me, we literally have no way to determine if what we are doing is going to end up well or in endless suffering. So, my guess, the best I could do is just that, my best, I can't control what others do but perhaps if we all do good nothing bad will ever happen. Maybe.

When I was a kid I read the book Sphere by Michael Crichton. Ever since I've been convinced that having our dreams come true most definitely leads you to hell in more ways than leads you to heaven, as Peterson says here.

I love Jordan’s Suit! What a boss! ❤

Mr. Peterson, Hello! I am a young man 21 years old, living in Russia, and I fully understand the heft of responsibility our time brings upon us with the powerful instruments that are coming into our lives right now. But I am just a student. I have little power to steer the world away from the numerous pathways to hell you have just mentioned. I dream of becoming a movie/content maker whos content becomes famous for giving people a clear code of conduct and inspiring all to take responsibility for our lives and live them the fullest, building a better and brighter world with the powerful instruments we now have at our disposition, but I often feel helpless and weak in face of things that are happening in the world right now and might happen very soon and in face of the might of the great 4th industrial revolution. I often looked for guidance in your interviews. Please tell me, what can I do to make the world take the heavenly path and not the hellish one? I am ready to make myself a man and do good things for the world, I am just afraid that I might not even get there in time. Thank you!

I was worried this was an AI generated video for the voice lines. I am getting a lot of them being recommended and they are really good

Brilliant!

Is it my phone or is his jacket two different colors?

To be able to have the time to think about a decision before having to make it for any amount of time is a privilege in itself.

Tonight I felt compelled to research Jordan Peterson on his thoughts on AI. Hand to God and all that is holy, I recently dreamt of the technological giants(like the Transformers but as tall as the Empire State Building) he speaks of. I was in this vast desert landscape and they were marching with no regard to what was under them or ahead of them. I wasn't scared, I somehow knew exactly where they would step and made damn sure it wouldn't be on me! Another very unique synchronicity is I recently described myself as a "grain of sand on the beach" not implying irresponsibility whatsoever. More of the idea that the Universe is truly humanly unfathomably infinite. Jung would've had a field day with me... God Bless this man and his wisdom! ❤😊

Chat GPT is just a predictive model, a very good predictor, but it has absolutely zero knowledge of what is a correct answer vs what is an incorrect answer. It simply responds with the most likely answer. It will lie convincingly if the answer will meet it's algorithm.

Based on my observation: it's going to "even out" human output. Original thinkers will be the exception, but overall humanity will flatten out when it comes to novel thinking. Human inspiration, at least for now, will be hard to simulate; but I could be very, very wrong here.

One of the greatest minds of this century.

Praise God! JP has been highlighting the heavenly battle more and more lately. Wonderful video 🙏🏼

"If the brain were simple enough to understand...we would be too simple to understand it." It is the dimensions of the explanatory gap that are worth noting. It will be interesting to see the degree to which it will be possible to instantiate our 'features' into these evolving AI systems...and thus what insights they may be able to reveal to us...about ourselves!

Look at Dr. Jordan Peterson here fascinating. And we get a Drama teacher for Canada's p.m. the joke's on us.

He's right about us all being androids though. He hinted at a lot of really deep things without going too far to lose the majority of his audience. I'm in line with the homotechno hypothesis, but I think it goes way back to maybe the invention of the automobile. Humanity has transformed itself from a lot of independent individuals into a removable nucleus. The car is an exo skeleton built in line with the evolutionary tree that has brought human beings from sharks. Like Jack Johnson sang - the wheels become your feet. And now when you plug your headphones into your ears, the phone literally becomes a neuro-electrical extension of your brain, and the computing power of computers and the Cloud are an extension of the human brain and its capacity for thought and memory. And so on.

I think he meant Cyborg. An Android is a robot that looks like and acts like a human but isn't. Cyborg is a human machine hybrid.

He's not describing a proper troll. He's describing what he's describing. Your average everyday troll is not machiavellian, narcissistic, and he doesn't want to make you feel bad (which is impossible, nobody is responsible for your feelings but you). Standard troll is just sarcastically pointing out the king has donkey ears. And king is usually outraged and campaign to behead the troll.

What’s with the jacket? Reminds me of Tommy Lee Jones’ Two-Face character in Batman Forever. Is there meaning behind this wardrobe choice?

Can AI be sued? Can AI be tried and if found guilty sent to prison? Can AI be taxed? Can AI be killed? Can AI get a job and take that job from a Human? Can AI vote? Can AI become a US citizen? We opened Pandora's box and now have no idea what to do with AI.

Anomininity gives me the ability to express ideas and still have the ability to feed my family. If we attack the anonimous, we silence the world into group think of what corporations want us to say...and i dont like the direction CEOs of corporations are trying to take the world.

It’s easy for Peterson to rant about “anonymous trolls” when he not only doesn’t have the balls to call out the actual power structure, but expressly carries water for it under the guise of opposing it while receiving massive free publicity and a handsome income in exchange. One has to admire his chutzpah honestly.

Lets all aim upward!