(NewsNation) — A new documentary about the rise of artificial intelligence has made waves, and nonprofit founder Tristan Harris believes the film will clarify the path humans and technology are on for the future.

The program, “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” was released last week and explores the intersection of AI development and its impact on humanity from a personal perspective.

The doc features interviews with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis.

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“What the AI doc should really do is just clarify the current path that we’re on is not to give us, again, a prohuman future that’s supporting American workers, but to replace human workers and consolidate all that wealth in eight soon-to-be trillionaires who are going to hold all the wealth in the future,” Harris, the co-founder of the Center of Humane Technology, told “CUOMO.”

Harris added that the film is meant to catalyze a conversation about some of the basics that humans can use to protect themselves from the harms of AI.

“What Steven Pinker calls common knowledge, that if I know that you know that I know and you know that I know that we know, then everybody knows that the default path is not acceptable,” he said.

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“And even if it’s hard, we’ve done hard things before, and we have to choose the other path, but not in this space, because we don’t even look at the algorithms which we know by design are destroying us and feeding us our worst selves. They are not a glitch. They are a feature.”

Another aspect Harris said the doc can do is make the AI debate less confusing.

“When it’s confusing, the company’s default incentives win,” stated Harris. “It means the companies get their way. And the default path that we’re heading towards is to an antihuman future.”

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