Do you think that he's in control or do you think he's not? Tell me, where is Azeem in control? Where is it a blur and when does he lose it?

Yeah, I mean, this gets at such a fundamental question about what does it mean to actually be acting autonomously? Like, are you acting in a way that is consistent with your own desires or are you being steered in some way by somebody else's desires? And I think if you start from that starting place and realize there's very little that we do anymore that isn't being steered in some way.

You know, if you think about how much time you spend doing anything these days, it's driven by your tools.

It's driven by the amount of attention that you are able to spend.

I'm teaching a class this semester at Duke on mental privacy, so advanced topics in AI law and policy.

And I ran an attention audit for my students.

They had to use the number of times they picked up their devices.

What is the thing you're looking for? What is the bad thing that could happen or the good thing that could happen? that will put us on a better track with our relationship with AI? What is something that either will go this way or that way in the next year, but we're not sure about?