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The Politics Guys

AI, Silicon Valley, and the Future of American Politics

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with Pedro Domingos, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He’s an AI researcher, tech industry insider, and author of the best-selling book The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. Recently, he’s turned his hand to political fiction, in the often hilariously funny novel 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire, which is very funny but also has plenty to say about serious issues facing us concerning technology and politics/ Topics Mike and Pedro discuss include: - why we should speed up, not slow down AI development - the serious AI dominance threat from China - why our big concern should be incompetent AI - AI transparency and bias - how AI makes direct democracy possible - the limits of AI direct democracy - reasons to be optimistic about AI and politics The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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And yet today we send 347 billion emails every single day.

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unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment,

0:58.2

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

1:00.3

Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal, Ooling.

1:05.3

Love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

1:18.9

I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Barronowski.

1:22.8

My guest today is Pedro Domingo's Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

1:29.2

He's an AI researcher, a tech industry insider, and the author of the bestselling book,

1:34.6

The Master Algorithm, how the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world.

1:40.3

Recently, he's turned his hand to political fiction in an often hilariously funny book,

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