Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

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…Well, I think for me, we're in an industry where so much of the conversation is focused on technology. And I think maybe my contrarian point of view or my contrarian angle is humanity is far more important than the technological developments, largely because humanity dictates how technology is adopted. I think for example, right now, people are massively underestimating the role that human adoption and human comfort with advances in artificial intelligence will determine its deployment. I think technology leaders think that folks will just blindly adopt new technology as it comes out. And I think we're going to enter a period of time where there's going to be a huge amount of societal pushback on a lot of the changes that are coming with AI. And so I think a lot of our focus as an industry, but more broadly in the world needs to be putting humanity first, making sure that the tools we're developing are advancing humanity's goals in addition to business goals. And I think in our industry at least, that's a bit contrarian. Yeah. And just so we don't need to go too down this path, but it's so hard for the AI labs, I think, to on the one hand be like, okay, this is really dangerous if it gets much smarter and we need people to know this because this is happening and moving quickly. On the other hand, how do you not just freak everyone out and make everyone so afraid of where things are going? It's like, well, what do you do? What's the right thing for them to do? And because of all that doom and gloom, I'm sure you've seen these surveys. AI is below ICE in terms of popularity and below Iran. This isn't going great. I don't know. I don't know what I would do if I were the lab. And I love, I guess that's like a benefit of Snapchat is it makes like you guys have been in AI for a very long time and it shows you the playfulness of it all and it doesn't have to be that serious. Anyway, with that, Evan, we reached our very exciting lightning round. I've got five questions for you. Are you ready? Let's give it a shot.…

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