#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:48 – Engineering at scale
08:36 – Increasing access to the economy
13:09 – Machine learning at Square
15:18 – Future of the digital economy
17:17 – Cryptocurrency
25:31 – Artificial intelligence
27:49 – Her
29:12 – Exchange with Elon Musk about bots
32:05 – Concerns about artificial intelligence
35:40 – Andrew Yang
40:57 – Eating one meal a day
45:49 – Mortality
47:50 – Meaning of life
48:59 – Simulation
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square. |
| 0:08.6 | Given the happenings at the time related to Twitter leadership and the very limited time we had, |
| 0:13.9 | we decided to focus this conversation on Square and some broader philosophical topics |
| 0:18.8 | and to save an in-depth conversation on engineering and AI at Twitter for a second appearance in this podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | This conversation was recorded before the outbreak of the pandemic. |
| 0:29.4 | For everyone feeling the medical, psychological and financial burden of this crisis, |
| 0:33.8 | I'm sending love your way. |
| 0:35.5 | Stay strong, or in this together, will beat this thing. |
| 0:39.8 | As I'm aside, let me mention that Jack moved 1 billion dollars of Square equity, |
| 0:45.2 | which is 28% of his wealth, to form an organization that funds COVID-19 relief. |
| 0:51.4 | First, as Andrew Yang tweeted, this is a spectacular commitment. |
| 0:56.2 | And second, it is amazing that it operates transparently by posting all its donations to a single Google doc. |
| 1:03.3 | To me, true transparency is simple, and this is as simple as it gets. |
| 1:09.3 | This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast. |
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| 1:22.2 | As usual, I'll do a few minutes of ads now, and never any ads in the middle that can break the flow of the conversation. |
| 1:28.1 | I hope that works for you, and doesn't hurt the listening experience. |
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