DeepSeek & the AI Arms Race (with Reid Hoffman)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.8 • 32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn and a leading voice in AI innovation. He’s out with a new book, Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future? Hoffman joins Preet to discuss how he thinks AI can help us be more human, why DeepSeek had Silicon Valley in a frenzy, and Hoffman’s latest venture: using AI to cure cancer. Plus, Preet breaks down why over a dozen FBI agents are suing the Trump administration, how to be a public servant in the Trump era, and why going to law school is still a good idea. Show notes and a transcript of the episode are available on our website. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.
0:06.0	I'm Preet Bharara.
0:08.1	There's a number of existential risks that confront human beings, pandemics, asteroids, climate change, nuclear war.
0:16.1	I think AI just being developed reduces the overall existential risk characteristics.
0:28.0	That's Reid Hoffman.
0:29.9	He's the co-founder of LinkedIn and one of the leading voices in AI innovation.
0:34.7	He's also the host of the popular podcast, Masters of Scale. He's now out with a new
0:40.0	book, Super Agency, What Could Possibly Go Right with our AI Future. Reid joined me this week to
0:46.8	discuss why he thinks AI can make us more human. We also get into Deepseek, TikTok, and Reid's
0:53.6	latest venture, using AI to cure cancer.
0:57.5	That's coming up. Stay tuned.
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