AI Meets World, Part One

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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After decades of seeming like another sci-fi catchphrase, artificial intelligence (AI) is having its moment. Some experts predict that AI will usher in an era of boundless productivity and techno-utopia; others see a new realm of great-power competition and the end of humanity. Nearly all agree that AI will change the world. But will it be for the better? Featured Guests: Janet Haven (Executive Director, Data & Society) Sebastian Mallaby (Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, CFR) For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/ai-meets-world-part-one

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why It Matters, the podcast where we delve into the crucial issues shaping our world.
0:09.4	In today's episode, join me, your host Gabriel Sierra, as we unravel the complex web of
0:15.3	geopolitics surrounding artificial intelligence and its impact on
0:19.2	global power dynamics. me. The voice you heard was an audio deep fake that we created using free online software.
0:36.4	And the text it read was generated by chat gPT from just a very short prompt.
0:42.1	I know, creepy. Artificial intelligence has been having its
0:46.1	coming out party. Everyone is wondering how it will change our lives and we're right to
0:51.3	wonder. I mean look I work at the Council on Foreign Relations
0:54.6	I am absolutely used to hearing people talking about serious things but I don't
1:00.0	know about you for me the conversation around AI feels different. There's simply no precedent for it and no way to know how far it'll go.
1:09.4	Many believe it's going to change everything we know about the world.
1:13.4	Depending on who you ask, it could upend our social order, solve profound scientific and economic
1:19.0	problems, or even end human life altogether.
1:23.2	It's a big topic and the world is just starting to understand it.
1:27.6	So we've decided to do a rare two-part episode.
1:31.2	In part one we'll outline the stakes of the AI race,
1:34.2	particularly in terms of national security, economics, and small things like the
1:39.0	meaning of life. In part two we'll get into the choices government's face as they decide how much to regulate
1:45.0	AI and how much to push its development.
1:47.8	I'm the real Gabriel Sierra, I think.
1:50.3	No, I am.
1:51.3	I definitely am.
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