90 Percent Unemployment in 2030?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Are we all going to be killed by rogue robots? Will war drones replace suicide bombers? Could artificial intelligence replace 90 percent of the workforce in the next decade? Martin Ford, a futurist and author focusing on the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on society and the economy, joins Nick to explain why Trump might not lead to the end of civilization, but rather, a bunch of programmers in Silicon Valley could write code the destroys us all, and how quickly that could happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. I have an incredibly
0:08.5	intelligent special guest today but before we get to that person I think I should probably
0:15.8	talk to John Kelly sorry John that wasn't an introduction for you you're a funny
0:20.3	guy Nick Hilton I'm a funny guy no I have a funny guy you're a funny guy you're a funny guy you're a funny guy you'll be a little British
0:25.5	Floridian twirp. So before we get to my guest this guy who has just written a book on the future of AI and
0:35.2	how we're all going to lose our jobs and how one of the scariest parts is about how people
0:39.9	that are working on killer robots that will go on the battlefield and probably come off the
0:45.5	battlefield and come knock on your front door and kill you.
0:49.0	I want to start to John very briefly about what's going on in Trland we're going to talk about the markets
0:53.6	Facebook so no better no better on this side of the future I hate to say it
1:00.1	yeah so real quick I don't want to do too much Trump because I'm a little
1:04.4	trumped out as I think everyone is, but I was really fascinated by the Michael Flynn
1:10.9	memo this week from our special friends on the general counsel that are...
1:15.8	Special counsel, yeah.
1:17.2	Special counsel, general, who cares?
1:19.8	Give us a rundown of what's going on, what you're hearing inside the Vanley Fair News
1:23.4	room and what we can expect what this all means. Well I think a lot of people this
1:28.8	week I guess on Tuesday night sort of had their eyebrows raised when they got their, either saw on Twitter or
1:35.2	got an RSS alert that the Special Counsel's Office had written a memo recommending no jail time for Mike Flynn.
1:47.0	Part of why people were so shocked by this
1:49.6	was that the, you know, Cohen had just retested that he lied before but he wasn't lying now
1:56.0	and then questions were swirling regarding whether or not he was going to serve an
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