AI, Elon, Abundance, and Longevity — With Peter Diamandis

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Peter Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, a New York Times bestselling author, and host of the Moonshot Podcast. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a fun, wide-ranging conversation touching on his belief around AI, his friendship with Elon Musk, Abundance and happiness, and how we can live longer, including an incoming lifespan explosion. Tune in for a fun, thought provoking conversation that covers a lot of ground on today's crucial topics. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	One of the biggest thinkers in tech and innovation joins us to talk about AI, abundance,
0:05.0	Elon Musk, and extending your lifespan, all that and more coming up right after this.
0:10.0	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:15.0	What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:18.0	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:20.0	These are some of the questions we've
0:22.0	tackled recently on the next big idea. I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the
0:28.1	world's leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play
0:33.0	smarter. Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:46.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. We're joined today by Peter Diamandis. He's the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZ Foundation.
0:51.3	He's a multiple times best-selling author. He's also the host of
0:55.0	the great Moonshot podcast. Peter, welcome to the show. Thank you, Alex. Great to be here.
1:00.2	Great to have you here. I've been following your work for quite some time. And no, you recently
1:04.4	held this Abundance Summit where you talked a lot about artificial intelligence. You had some great
1:09.3	speakers there. And I think the main question
1:11.3	there was whether AI is going to help us boom or AI is going to be the end of us, this boomers
1:17.3	versus Doomers framework. And you just wrote on X right before this. I reiterate that AI will be
1:23.6	humanity's greatest hope or will be our gravest threat. There is no in between. So I really
1:29.2	wanted, we talk about the nuance here. Why is it one or the other? And if it's one or the other,
1:34.3	and I know, of course, we have some, you know, determination on which way we go, but which way do you
1:38.6	think we're headed? Yeah. So it's one or the other because it is so extraordinarily powerful. It's not a little bit more
1:46.5	powerful than an intelligent human. Claude 3 was at an IQ of 101. We just saw GPT 4-0 released
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