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Conversations with Coleman

A New Way of Teaching in Disruptive Times with Rob Reich (S3 Ep.2)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5631 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Rob Reich. Rob is a political science and philosophy professor at Stanford University. He is the Director of Stanford's McCoy Centre for Ethics and Society and Associate Director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence. Rob is also the author of "Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better", and the co-author of "System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot", "Digital Technology and Democratic Theory", "Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values" and many more. We talk about the culture of Silicon Valley, the problem with optimization, the externalities caused by Big Tech, and the problem of censorship by Big Tech. We also go on to discuss artificial intelligence, the famous "Experience Machine" thought experiment, and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

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the show with friends and family. As always, thank you so much for your support.

1:03.6

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Rob Reish,

1:08.8

not Rob Reich, as I mistakenly call him at the beginning of the podcast.

1:12.7

Rob is a political science and philosophy professor at Stanford University.

1:16.9

He's the director of Stanford's McCoy Center for Ethics and Society,

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and Associate Director of Stanford's Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence.

1:25.0

We talk about the culture of Silicon Valley, the problem with optimization.

1:29.1

We talk about the externalities caused by big tech, the problem of censorship by big tech.

1:33.8

We discuss artificial intelligence. We talk about the famous experience machine thought experiment,

1:38.9

and much more. So without further ado, Rob Reish.

1:48.0

All right, Rob Reich.

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Thanks so much for coming on my show.

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Thanks so much for having me.

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Real pleasure.

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So the topic of our conversation today is a book that you've co-written called System Error, Where Big Tech Went Wrong, and How We Can Reboot.

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