The speaker contrasts AI systems with electricity: AI companies are building an alien mind that might serve as a user’s contractor, rather than providing a resource users can freely repurpose.

“given that like normally when you like provide electricity to people you don't have like granular control”

“of the way that electricity operates in the world you instead are like providing a thing that people can repurpose however they want and it is not like the way that they're setting things up is definitely not that um they are like more like uh building an alien mind that might be a contractor for you um i think that this is yeah i think it's illegitimate in some ways um though i think that one”