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🗓️ 1 July 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Sam Harris speaks with Kevin Kelly about why it’s so hard to predict future technology, the nature of intelligence, the “singularity,” artificial consciousness, and other topics.
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0:46.5 | Today I'm speaking with Kevin Kelly. Kevin helped launch Wired Magazine and was his executive |
0:52.5 | editor for his first seven years. So he knows a thing or two about digital media. And he's written |
1:00.0 | for the New York Times, the Economist, Science, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and many other |
1:07.2 | publications. His previous books include Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, |
1:15.2 | and What Technology Wants. And his most recent book is The Innevitable, Understanding the 12 |
1:23.4 | Technological Forces that will shape our future. And Kevin and I focused on this book, |
1:29.6 | and then spent much of the conversation talking about AI, the safety concerns around it, |
1:37.1 | the nature of intelligence, the concept of the singularity, the prospect of artificial |
1:44.1 | consciousness and the ethical implications of that. And it was great. We don't agree about |
1:49.9 | everything, but I really enjoyed the conversation. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
1:56.7 | And now I'm bringing you Kevin Kelly. |
2:05.2 | I am here with Kevin Kelly. Kevin, thanks for coming on the podcast. |
2:08.4 | Oh man, I'm enjoying this right now. Listen, there's so many people have asked for you, and obviously |
2:15.9 | I've known you and about you for many years. I'll talk about how we first met at some point. |
2:21.8 | You're so on top of recent trends that are subsuming everyone's lives that it's just great to |
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