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0:00downtown Tokyo March 20th
0:031995 two men are driving to the subway
0:05station R hour is about to start they
0:09make a pit stop at a convenience store
0:12the driver buys two newspapers the
0:15passenger gloves a knife tape and
0:18sandals the passenger is dropped off in
0:21front of the station his train is
0:23arriving
0:24shortly he boards the front carriage and
0:27after three stops he takes a package out
0:29of his bag and drops it onto the floor
0:32it's wrapped in newspapers from the
0:34convenience store he takes the sharpen
0:37tip of his umbrella and drives it into
0:39the package a few more holes for good
0:43measure the driver is waiting for him
0:46outside he makes sure that any liquid
0:48left by the package is gone the liquid
0:51the man just released on the Tokyo
0:53subway is over 900 mL of sarin one of
0:57the deadliest nerve agents on the planet
1:01on March 20th 1995 at the height of
1:04morning Rush Hour Tokyo was attacked
1:08Emergency Services overwhelmed hundreds
1:10of calls flood in people are dying in
1:13the Tokyo
1:15subway the man iuo Hayashi was one of
1:19five five people who released almost 5
1:21lers of liquid sarin in the cramped and
1:23poorly ventilated compartments of three
1:25Subway Lines chiota ibia and maruno
1:30three lines that converge at a single
1:32point the heart of Tokyo's
1:35government it was an attack ordered by a
1:38blind paranoid man but it was a man with
1:41a billion dollars an arsenal of deadly
1:43chemical weapons and hundreds of loyal
1:45followers willing to use them he
1:48brainwashed thousands with a perverse
1:50system of spiritual superiority with a
1:53final goal to save the world by ending
1:55it this is the story of the Tokyo subway
1:58gas attack
2:02this video was made possible by 80,000
2:04hours and the research was done by
2:06Robert J lton Ian reer aruki murakami
2:09and countless
2:10[Music]
2:12others chitsu Matsumoto was born to a
2:16family of tatami mat makers he couldn't
2:19see through one eye but had some Vision
2:21left in the
2:22other as a child he was sent to a
2:25special
2:26school there he used the eye that he had
2:28left to control his fully blank
2:31classmates he forced them to strike each
2:34other helped some go into town on the
2:36condition of money and
2:38favors teachers said he was tender to
2:41some brutal towards
2:43others 20 years later he graduated and
2:47became a Mur and
2:48acupuncturist 3 years later he met his
2:51wife with the help of her parents he
2:53opened up a store that sold Chinese
2:55herbal medicine discovering a talent for
2:57selling snake oil he made hundreds of
2:59thousands off of fake drugs and
3:02Potions but Matsumoto was more talented
3:05at selling than
3:07hiding he's caught and served a jail
3:10sentence going bankrupt and experiencing
3:12profound shame he grew resentful of the
3:15state that took from him in his darkest
3:17hour he meditated practiced yoga read
3:21Eastern philosophy and studied he
3:24embraced Buddhist concepts of karma
3:26Redemption and rebirth and built his own
3:28interpretation
3:30with new found confidence he starts a
3:32new business a yoga school and
3:34Publishing
3:35Company Matsumoto becomes a
3:39guru determined to fix the mistakes he
3:41made earlier he combines his skills for
3:43marketing with
3:46spirituality a photo of him levitating
3:48appears in a magazine photos of him
3:51getting endorsed by spiritual leaders he
3:53does interviews and tells the world that
3:55he wanted the Japanese Countryside when
3:57a deity appeared before him
4:00it told him he was the God of Light who
4:02will lead the armies of all the gods to
4:03usher in the Holy Kingdom of Shambala
4:06through a final war that will end all
4:09Darkness TV appearances radio shows
4:12magazine interviews deceptive photos and
4:15articles are paying
4:17off he leaves behind his old self no
4:20longer chitsu Matsumoto a failed
4:23salesman the boy raised by tatami
4:25mapmakers now shoko asahara a guru with
4:29a father following the name of his cult
4:32omin
4:33Rio Supreme truth but his cult is not
4:37like others he's surrounded by brilliant
4:40scientists chemists physicists Japanese
4:43from Elite universities and families
4:46asahara had a goal a goal that needed
4:49talent talent that would help him build
4:51a new Japanese civilization after
4:54Armageddon with him at its Center
4:57[Music]
5:02in his own mind and that of his
5:04followers he was a God the closer you
5:07were to him the higher your rank to move
5:10up he created tests he filtered members
5:13for their devotion and talent and began
5:15targeting the young and
5:17educated holding talks at top
5:19universities asahara crafted a message
5:21that Blended spirituality with
5:24science he offered outfitted research
5:26Labs alongside Enlightenment he marketed
5:30himself to those who felt alienated from
5:32Japanese Society sexual advertisements
5:34to Target lonely young men flirtatious
5:37women on the answering machine most
5:39ignored his advances but some did attend
5:42his talks these were Sam minay one foot
5:45in oh the other is still in Japanese
5:48Society the lowest of his
5:51hierarchy once a novice The Next Step
5:54was a loyal member a s only a Sam could
5:58truly join the Master they could unlock
6:01supernatural abilities like asahara
6:04levitation telepathy and mind reading
6:07but they had to cut off their lives as s
6:10had to renounce their family property
6:12money work and even their
6:14names they had to give it all to om Shin
6:18Rio during their initiation they
6:20participated in Mass prayer
6:22ceremonies they were given high doses of
6:24LSD and were locked in small rooms for
6:27weeks SAS were forced into celibacy they
6:30were forbidden to love or to ejaculate
6:33for young men who joined a religious
6:35death cult the former significantly
6:37easier than the latter they endured
6:39exhausting breathing exercises long
6:41hours of meditation and were sometimes
6:43expected to rise and kneel 100,000 times
6:46in a row on top of this schedule each
6:49member was given heavy unpaid labor it
6:52was normal for them to only get three
6:53hours of sleep a night this was required
6:56for asahara to co his
6:58stock the line between punishment and
7:00training was blurred by
7:02Design long exposure to scalding hot and
7:05freezing cold water hanging upside down
7:07for
7:09hours SAS were told this was training
7:13the only way to rid themselves of bad
7:17karma karma is a core belief in Buddhist
7:19tradition good actions bring good
7:22results bad actions bring suffering
7:25traditionally weaponized by white girls
7:26with dreadlocks who call their exes
7:28narcissists asahara used it
7:31differently according to him it could be
7:34removed through physical means like aeis
7:36and self- torture if they worked hard
7:39enough they could also remove it from
7:42others by the late ' 80s his operation
7:45had matured his goals shifted from
7:47acquiring followers to using
7:50them he tells them of his Shambala plan
7:54their movement would spread and
7:55transform the world into a utopian
7:57Paradise he launches a new headquarters
8:00near Mount Fuji they start acquiring
8:02rural plots of land to build Lotus
8:04Villages these were isolated communities
8:06of omers that were models for their new
8:09civilization the beginning of his state
8:12within a
8:13state he knew the power of vision well
8:16so he hid his followers from the
8:20outside in September 1988 a s is hung
8:24upside down at the Mount Fuji Center he
8:26had been showing signs of mental illness
8:28during the Colts
8:29rituals they immersed him in ice cold
8:32water to calm him down he dies that
8:36wasn't supposed to happen aahar and
8:38Company are worried this could ruin
8:41their entire
8:42operation they tell no one and they burn
8:45his body and hide his ashes by dropping
8:47them in a lake first crisis
8:51averted but now they had a new problem
8:54the men's friend shuji taguchi saw what
8:57happened and threatened to leave and
8:59sniff
8:59[Music]
9:00that wasn't supposed to
9:03happen as asahara's fear isolation and
9:06power grew so did his interpretation of
9:09karma everyone outside of om was
9:12infected with Bad Karma if they died
9:15they would suffer in the afterlife his
9:17members however were spiritually
9:19Superior equipped with the ability to
9:21take on their
9:23karma they had a duty to elevate
9:25people's Souls a spiritually Superior
9:28person could cleanse them of their Bad
9:29Karma by killing
9:31[Music]
9:35them on the orders of asahara the had
9:37tooa shuji
9:40taguchi he was strangled by five members
9:42in a small tatami
9:44cell asahara's first real
9:52kill his cult was no longer a small yoga
9:55studio asahara had given them a
9:58spiritual right to m
10:00if he organized them properly he could
10:02do even
10:04more but the larger it grew the more
10:07attention it drew people were starting
10:09to take notice of the strange cult with
10:12colorful
10:15robes Tatsumi Sakamoto is an anti-cult
10:19lawyer he knows om se's assets and holds
10:22members against their will one day he
10:25decides to do something about
10:27it months after first POA he records an
10:31interview he tells the Tokyo
10:33broadcasting system of the Colts
10:35predatory tactics to not cause offense
10:38the TBS show senior figures in oh the
10:40interview out of fear to make sure they
10:43wouldn't get sued a few days later a few
10:47men walk up to an apartment complex in
10:49the suburbs of
10:50Yokohama at around 3:00 a.m. armed with
10:53hammers hypmic needles and potassium
10:56chloride the men enter the Sakamoto
10:58residence through an unlocked door they
11:01find Sakamoto and his family sleeping
11:04they hit susumi in the head with a
11:06hammer he's injected with potassium
11:08chloride and
11:10strangled at the same time his wife is
11:12also injected beaten and strangled to
11:16death the men proceed to murder their
11:19son they remove all three bodies from
11:21the
11:23apartment just another compassionate Act
11:25of Salvation asahara explained
11:31asahara had killed twice without
11:34consequences his vision
11:37expanded he saw the absolute loyalty of
11:39his followers there was no limit to what
11:42he could make them do anyone opposing
11:44the group was labeled as evil and
11:46marched for
11:48elimination soon that meant the entire
11:52world similar to the Nazis during World
11:55War II om viewed Society outside as
11:57filled with inferior people who did not
12:00deserve to belong to the new world they
12:01were
12:03creating spiritual superiority replaced
12:06racial
12:09superiority oh members became
12:11Gatekeepers of life and
12:14death with the ego that only a very
12:16serious meditator has asahara truly
12:18believed he was the second coming of
12:20Christ Shiva and other
12:23deities but proving he was God brought
12:27problems he made world ending
12:29predictions Tokyo and Japan would sink a
12:32World War would erupt between the USA
12:34and Russia in
12:351999 nuclear war in
12:392003 he needed these Visions to seem
12:41larger than life but they also had to
12:43come
12:45true if they didn't it could show his
12:47followers that their Emperor wore no
12:51clothes but asahara specifically crafted
12:53his organization to make his Visions
12:57real om was divided into Ministries and
12:59agencies each run by a high ranking
13:02member chosen for their expertise and
13:05dedication these were the upper ranks
13:08his inner
13:10circle isako ishi built a war chest an
13:14office worker in her former life she
13:15showed exceptional administrative skill
13:18she helped om amass $1 billion in
13:21assets asahara's bathwater cost $1,000
13:25his blood
13:2610,000 nothing was off limits
13:29when followers became SAS their assets
13:31were seized including valuables co-owned
13:34by family
13:35members they took advantage of their
13:37followers cheap labor to launch new
13:39businesses fitness clubs real estate
13:42dealings restaurants and even
13:43babysitting and dating
13:45services they undercut the Japanese
13:47computer Market by assembling and
13:48selling computers for cheap eventually
13:51they went
13:53International a Tea Plantation in Sri
13:55Lanka a sheep farm in
13:57Australia they used shell companies to
13:59purchase a variety of high-tech
14:01equipment chemicals and pharmaceuticals
14:03eventually used in the manufacturer of
14:05drugs and
14:07weapons under the leadership of isi om
14:10assembled the necessary Capital now they
14:12needed to make sure they could keep the
14:14operation running smoothly without
14:18problems iuo Hayashi was a member of the
14:21Japanese Super Elite he attended one of
14:24Tokyo's top private universities he
14:26later became the head of a medical
14:28department at a
14:30hospital with the help of 10 resident
14:32doctors he set up the astral Hospital
14:35Institute to keep the cult membership in
14:37check here they detained tortured
14:40blackmailed and killed members and their
14:42families om doctors conducted spy checks
14:45injecting suspects with true serum drugs
14:47and interrogating
14:49them Hayashi introduced new Narco
14:51treatments combining these drugs with
14:53electroshock therapy to try and erase
14:55members
14:56memories they remov fingerprints and and
14:59changed facial features to disguise
15:00their crimes anything to protect
15:02asahara's plans for
15:06Armageddon overseeing high-tech weapons
15:08was AO marai he graduated from Osaka
15:11University with a degree in physics he
15:14studied the X-ray emissions of celestial
15:17bodies Mari worked closely with asahara
15:20who ordered him to make devices that
15:21could prove he was enlightened Nicola
15:24Tesla's earthquake machine a plasma
15:26weapon that would vaporize only humans
15:28and leave infrastructure intact so om
15:31could inhabit the empty buildings after
15:32the World's
15:34End these experiments LED nowhere
15:37asahara needed something his fear of
15:40losing kept growing he forced Detention
15:43of members who tried to leave kidnapped
15:45those who did he played tapes to members
15:48where he showed Wars all over the world
15:50discussed weapons of mass destruction
15:52and preached that they were under attack
15:54from the US the CIA the Japanese
15:57government Freemasons the emperor and
15:59the Crown
16:01Princess he had to do whatever he could
16:03to maintain control but his Visions to
16:06prove he was a god weren't coming
16:11true until they did in 1995 he assigned
16:15a member to predict natural disasters by
16:17making astrological calculations on live
16:20radio the man gave a semi-educated
16:23guas an earthquake would happen around
16:25coob 9 days later over 5,000 people lost
16:29their lives in a devastating coob
16:31earthquake for his followers this was
16:34indisputable evidence that asahara could
16:36see the future Armageddon was coming
16:40members were afraid for their lives
16:42while he gained time time to get his
16:45followers to fight in his final war for
16:47Shambala to cleanse the world of its Bad
16:50Karma saving it by ending it he turned
16:54away from fantasy weapons to proven ones
16:59the Ministry of Health and Welfare was
17:01responsible for biological and chemical
17:04weapons at 's Main laboratory around 100
17:07scientists work with equipment costing
17:09upwards of $30
17:12million sichi Endo dropped out of his
17:14graduate program in virology at the
17:16kyota University Medical School to join
17:19M Masami tosia was a graduate student in
17:22organic physical chemistry at one of
17:24Japan's leading universities a part-time
17:27prep school teacher before joining
17:29they were handpicked by asahara to find
17:31his
17:34weapons bashel linam toxin is made by
17:37bacteria under low oxygen it's among the
17:40deadliest known
17:42substances Endo started by harvesting it
17:44from soil
17:45samples then he built large cubic
17:47fermenters to produce batches
17:49approximately 50 they drove through
17:52Central Tokyo and Nita airport the
17:54largest in Japan spraying devices were
17:57mounted inside it would be a mass Terror
18:00attempt that would topple the government
18:03the van sprayed the toxin into the
18:06air but nothing happened the release was
18:10a failure spraying it was more difficult
18:13than
18:14manufacturing but Endo was determined so
18:17he tried again this time the Imperial
18:19Palace during a royal wedding of the
18:21Crown Prince it would be a mass Terror
18:23attempt that would topple the government
18:26the van sprayed the toxin into the air
18:30but nothing
18:31happened botulism botched again the
18:35third times the charm and a must have
18:37thought maybe so one more attempt was
18:40[Music]
18:42made three briefcases equipped with
18:45sprayers were placed near the ticket
18:46barriers wandering passengers workers
18:50Tokyo's government Elites would be
18:51unknowing
18:56targets and nothing happened
19:01but Endo didn't stop
19:04there Anthrax is an infectious disease
19:07caused by bacteria that live in soil
19:09animals become infected while
19:11grazing humans can get infected by Cuts
19:14in the skin breathing it in or eating
19:16contaminated meat inhalation is the most
19:19dangerous the most relevant for weapons
19:23without treatment it's
19:25fatal Endo probably got a harmless
19:27strain from a friend still in school
19:30some believe he tried to create a lethal
19:31one by combining two harmless ones he
19:34moved it to mass
19:38production ever cautious they tested on
19:40the roof of their
19:42headquarters and this time they
19:43succeeded sort
19:46of they made the street smell bad and
19:49killed a few birds and pets but
19:51something had
19:53[Music]
19:56worked they turned the anthrax into
19:58powder and drove it through Central
20:00Tokyo it would be a mass Terror attempt
20:03that would topple the
20:05government the van sprayed the toxin
20:07into the
20:10air but nothing
20:13happened 's biological weapon attempts
20:15were almost comical if they weren't so
20:18disturbing asahara even sent doctors to
20:21Central Africa to bring back
20:23Ebola that failed attempts at chalera
20:26and Q fever also fell short
20:30despite this om had other weapons they
20:31could still
20:34use Masami toia LED their chemical
20:36weapons
20:38program they made tabun gas mustard gas
20:41Som hydrogen cyanide and
20:44fosen they killed 20 dissidents by
20:46scorting them with
20:48thex they tried to kill a journalist a
20:50friend of the lawyer tsumi Sakamoto with
20:52fosin gas she escaped
20:56injured multiple hydrogen cyanide
20:58attacks were attempted but failed
21:00despite their investment the chemical
21:02weapons were rarely used at scale there
21:05was only one weapon they used that was
21:07different a weapon that in asahara's
21:09mind had no
21:12equals sarin is colorless and
21:15orderless exposure causes symptoms in
21:17seconds larger doses death in minutes
21:21asahara was
21:23obsessed he channeled all of 's
21:25infrastructure into its production
21:29they first used sarin on a small herd of
21:31sheep on their Australian
21:34Ranch and it was a
21:36success they moved on to human
21:41trials two o members pull into a parking
21:44lot 37 M away from a three-story
21:47apartment inside are three
21:49lawyers they were fighting m in a real
21:52estate dispute and winning the men
21:54switch on the machine waiting for it to
21:56heat up and vaporize the 30 L of liquid
21:59sarin tubing directs the gas to fans on
22:02its side for 20 minutes it flows into
22:05the
22:06[Music]
22:08air but a slight breeze shifts it away
22:11from the lawyers and towards neighboring
22:13homes sarin enters through open Windows
22:16and is pulled into Apartments via
22:18AC the next morning three people are
22:21dead two more dilator in the hospital
22:25not one was one of the lawyers
22:28sarin had worked now it was time to
22:31scale it asahara ordered tosia to
22:34produce 70 tons of sarin if everything
22:37went according to plan they would
22:38release the gas over
22:40Tokyo if everything went according to
22:43plan there was a spill at their
22:45laboratory this led to reports of a foul
22:47smelling odor near their
22:49headquarters police gathered soil
22:52samples they identified two compounds
22:54linked directly to the production of
22:56sarin a newspaper reported it was
22:58suspiciously close to where om Shin Rio
23:00had a
23:02commune the higher ranks panicked they
23:05ordered the destruction of their illegal
23:06chemicals including all their sarin
23:09stores within a month om built a wall
23:12inside the building hiding the lab
23:13equipment and decorating the room to
23:15look like a prayer Hall the police
23:18didn't make a move despite Panic inside
23:20the organization it still seemed like
23:22they could get away with anything but
23:25then they made another mistake cult
23:27members abducted a man whose sister had
23:29fled the group om wanted her back
23:32because she was wealthy but her brother
23:34would not reveal her location kept
23:37barely conscious he was drugged and
23:38imprisoned he died of an
23:41overdose but his abduction was
23:44witnessed a bystander reported the van's
23:47license plate and the police traced it
23:49to a member combined with the sarin soil
23:51samples this was the final straw the
23:54police planned a raid on the M
23:55headquarters
23:56[Music]
23:59but asahara
24:01knew police informants leaked him the
24:04information about the incoming raid so
24:06he told marai to divert
24:08it he ordered an attack on the Tokyo
24:10subway in 2
24:13days marai had little time and no sarin
24:16so he Enlisted the help of Hayashi endo
24:18and
24:20nakagawa in 36 hours he managed to
24:23produce over 10 lers a spraying device
24:26was too unpredictable
24:28this time they keep it
24:29simple plastic bags and sharpened
24:33umbrellas the Tokyo subway is the
24:35busiest in the world it moves almost
24:38half the world's population every year
24:403.9 billion
24:42people the Metro spends 286 stations on
24:4513 lines despite the city's sprawling
24:48layout it's known for its efficient
24:51design 22% of all of Tokyo's residents
24:54use it every
24:56day at 3:00 a.m. on the day of the
24:59attack the team rehearsed with
25:01water Hayashi then gave them all a
25:03hypmic needle with atropine sulfate a
25:06sarin
25:08antidote before rush hour five cars set
25:10out to five different subway
25:13stations a kuo Hayashi boards the South
25:15westbound chiota line departing from
25:18Sagi subway
25:19station he continues his journey for
25:22three stops puncturing his bag of sarin
25:24just before reaching his last station he
25:27exits the train which continues to
25:28Kasumi
25:29gaki none of the passengers notice a
25:33thing 26-year-old kiyoka isumi takes a
25:36deep breath as the air fills her lungs
25:39it suddenly freezes in her chest pain
25:42spreads through her and she doesn't know
25:44why she feels like she's been
25:47shot as the train approaches Kuma gaki
25:50station she starts to violently
25:53cough everyone around her too
25:56[Music]
25:59applied physicist toru Toyota boarded
26:01the first Carriage of the north
26:03eastbound hiia line he continued his
26:06journey for only one stop puncturing his
26:08bag before leaving at a bitsu station
26:11all 900 mL of sarin leaked out the
26:14passengers evacuated The Carriage three
26:16stops later the train continued with an
26:19empty front Carriage until kasuma gasak
26:21station where it was taken out of
26:24service masado yokoyama boarded the
26:26fifth Carriage of the magoi Line train
26:29to
26:30kabukuru when he had approached his last
26:32station he poked his packets of sarin
26:34but only one was
26:35punctured he cleaned the umbrella in the
26:38bathroom and got into his driver's car
26:40since the package was mostly intact
26:42sarin was released very slowly it was
26:45only when it reached the end of the line
26:46and returned that the package was
26:48discovered the car was quickly wiped
26:51down but it continued and completed
26:53another full Journey he was finally
26:55taken out of service 1 hour and 40
26:57minutes after yokoyama had punctured his
27:02package on the other end of the hiia
27:04line asuo Hayashi boarded the South
27:07westbound train to prove his Devotion to
27:09asahara he had volunteered to take an
27:11extra package of sarin the packages
27:14immediately began to smell causing
27:16passengers to feel
27:17ill as soon as they reached the
27:19following stop a man kicked the package
27:21onto the platform a Kota Macho station
27:24the small area quickly filled with the
27:26gas the train kept going with a puddle
27:28of sarin on the
27:29floor an overwhelmed passenger pressed
27:32the emergency button but the train was
27:34in a tunnel and had to continue until
27:36the next
27:37stop it finally stopped at sujii station
27:40where five passengers collapsed on the
27:43[Music]
27:44platform Kenichi Hil boarded the
27:46westbound marinoi line at iabuk
27:50station he punctured the packets of
27:52sarin and exited the train all 900 mL of
27:55sarin were released two p passengers
27:58collapsed by the time the train reached
27:59Nano Sak station they were evacuated and
28:03a station attendant removed the package
28:06the train continued until the end of the
28:07line new passengers boarded the train at
28:10ogi Kubo station at 8:38 a.m. it
28:13continued in the opposite direction
28:15until two stops later it was taken out
28:17of
28:21service 's attack killed 13 people and
28:23injured more than
28:256,000 when it was determined that sarin
28:28was the cause om was connected within
28:30[Music]
28:33hours on March 22nd the police raided
28:35the OM headquarters and other Lotus
28:37Villages they discovered the
28:39infrastructure meant to produce chemical
28:41weapons hideo muray The Mastermind
28:44behind the attack was murdered by Yakuza
28:46in public asahara was arrested in late
28:49spring hiding in a hidden room covered
28:51in his own
28:53piss he and 12 other o members were
28:55given the death penalty they were
28:57executed in
28:592018 while the attack was terrible it
29:01could have been even
29:03worse tuia produced sarin at over 70%
29:06Purity for Matsumoto that level was
29:09deadly enough to float into a
29:10neighboring house and still kill three
29:12people under the pressure of time Endo
29:15had made a batch half as pure for the
29:16subway
29:17attack because of the accidental spill
29:19in the previous year he didn't have
29:21access to all the chemicals needed for
29:23production if he did the result could
29:25have been far different
29:28om was given official religious status
29:30by the Japanese police it got tax breaks
29:33immunity from prosecution and made it
29:35difficult taboo for police to
29:37investigate risk avoiding police and a
29:39paranoid man who knew how to hide after
29:41his first business failed it wasn't a
29:44coincidence that he moved members far
29:45away from civilization and described
29:47what they did with vague spiritual
29:49nonsense a yoga studio that brought
29:51lonely people together peer pressure and
29:54isolation manipulated what was
29:55acceptable then asahara slowly kept
29:58turning up the
29:59temperature he purposely hunted
30:01individuals good at solving problems and
30:05he gave them problems to solve that were
30:07[Music]
30:10terrible all around us are systems whose
30:13goals are not aligned with human
30:14well-being albeit at different scales
30:18YouTubers that engineer misleading anger
30:20inducing titles to maximize clicks
30:22factory farms AI weapon systems that
30:25evolve daily many don't know that better
30:27options exist to the detriment of us all
30:31there are many ways to do good and
30:33they're not Downstream from a single man
30:35convinced of his own
30:38superiority someone close to me is quite
30:40talented with numbers in another world
30:42they could have helped a soulless
30:43Corporation codes a map scouted from a
30:46top level University contributing their
30:48mathematical talent to help some
30:50annoying executive increase his
30:52margins what if it didn't need to be
30:54this way protecting against chemical
30:57weapons not building them guarding life
31:00instead of ending it my friend no longer
31:02programs a self-help app they now spend
31:04their time working on AI safety 80,000
31:08hours helped them transition into a job
31:10that was meaningful they were given
31:12advice support a network and help with
31:15choosing a career that does
31:18good as the time ticks stop before it's
31:21too late take a pause breathe and think
31:24is this my place moving a branding ass
31:27at two pixels to the left for a
31:28company's newsletter that no one reads
31:31or help children with
31:32malaria fiddling around in spreadsheets
31:35every day to boost yogurt sales or
31:37reduce the suffering of animals just as
31:38capable of pain programming a trust F
31:41baby's crypto app or linning AI changing
31:44slides on a presentation because a
31:46client just wants to see it differently
31:47one more time or clean the air we
31:49breathe the clock is ticking but the
31:52choice is yours do you decide to click
31:54on 80,000 hour.org
31:56[Music]

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