#280 — The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Eric Schmidt about the ways artificial intelligence is shifting the foundations of human knowledge and posing questions of existential risk.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.5	Okay, jumping right into it today. Today I'm speaking with Eric Schmidt. Eric is a technologist,
0:53.5	entrepreneur and philanthropist. He joined Google in 2001 and served as its CEO and chairman
1:01.8	from 2001 to 2011 and as executive chairman and technical advisor thereafter. In 2017, he co-founded
1:11.0	Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative that bets early on exceptional people who are
1:16.0	helping to make the world better. He is the host of Reimagined with Eric Schmidt, his own podcast,
1:21.8	and most recently he's the co-author of a new book, The Age of AI and our Human Future.
1:28.4	And that is the topic of today's conversation. We cover how AI is affecting the foundations of
1:35.6	our knowledge and how it raises questions of existential risk. So we talk about the good and the
1:41.4	bad of AI, both narrow AI and ultimately AI, artificial general intelligence. We discuss
1:51.1	breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals and other good things, but we also talk about cyber war
1:58.6	and autonomous weapons and how are thinking about containing the risk here by analogy to
2:06.0	the proliferation of nuclear weapons probably needs to be revised. Anyway, an important conversation,
2:12.7	which I hope you find useful, and I bring you Eric Schmidt.
2:24.2	I am here with Eric Schmidt. Eric, thanks for joining me. Glad to be with you.
2:28.6	So, I think we have a hard out at an hour here. So, amazingly, that's a short podcast for me.
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