I'm Alan Alder, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

As we move towards every person having their own AI to help them find things, help them fill out forms,

help them identify scams. You can have your AI say, I don't want you to look at any of the ads.

I don't want you to look at, I don't want to hear about them, I don't want to hear about like the really sort of raucous, loud voices.

All I want to know is about the things that I'm interested in and what other people are

saying.

And if you build things like that, it turns out that the profit motive, if everybody begins

having that, then the profit motive, if everybody begins having that,

then the profit motive for these crazy networks goes away.

That's Alex Sandy Pentland.

In his new book, Shared Wisdom,

he explores how innovation has shaped our culture,

with lessons from history and even from bees.

He's applied these lessons to understanding how today's explosive growth of AI can be directed to help us tame and curate the information overload that AI is itself contributing to.

Alex has been exploring the future impact of technology

for his whole distinguished career,

dating back to his being a founding member of MIT's famed media lab,

which is where I met him back in 1996,

while filming an episode of the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers.

This is great. We haven't seen each other in about 30 years.

I know. Isn't that amazing? But we had a great time when you came and visited.

We did wearables and smart cars and other crazy stuff, yeah.

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