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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Will AI devastate humanity or uplift it? Philosopher Christopher DiCarlo's new book examines how we can navigate when AI surpasses human capacity.
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1:08.1 | This is On Point. I'm Deborah Becker and for Magna Chakra Barthi. |
1:12.5 | Artificial intelligence, essentially where machines do things that require human smarts, is not only here to stay, but it's growing exponentially with the potential to completely transform society. |
1:25.6 | So the world's tech leaders are in a race to try to harness the |
1:29.8 | power of AI, and most of them insist that it's going to benefit all of us. Take Amazon founder |
1:36.1 | and CEO, Jeff Bezos. There's no institution in the world that cannot be improved with machine |
1:42.4 | learning. Or Apple CEO, Tim Cook. |
1:45.3 | I have a very positive and optimistic view of AI. |
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