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Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress

The future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many…
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Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the World

Marc Andreessen thinks AI will make everything better–if only we get out of the way.…
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Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI

In the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of…
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Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence

Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts about the benefits…
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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable,…
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Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk’s Russ…
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Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI

When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by…
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Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future

Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism…
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Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

IBM’s super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn’t nearly as good at diagnosing cancer. This…
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Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems…
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