Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Introducing Eric Schmidt

(1:59) Thoughts on remote work and work-life balance

(3:49) Approaching AI: US vs China

(8:04) Relativity Space, rockets, drones, defense, and more

(17:32) Future role of America, and the decline of the West

(21:51) AGI: boom or bust?

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0:00.0	I honestly believe that the AI revolution is under-hyped.
0:06.0	Now, why is this all important?
0:09.0	Eric Schmidt is here. He's the former Google Executive Chairman and CEO.
0:12.0	These agents are going to be really powerful, and they'll start to work together.
0:16.0	We're soon going to be able to have computers running on their own deciding what they want to do. Now we have the arrival of a new non-human intelligence, which is likely to have better reasoning
0:27.3	skills than humans can have. So if you were emperor of the world for one hour, the most important thing
0:34.0	I do is make sure that the West wins. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Eric Schmidt.
0:44.6	Hi.
0:47.3	Good.
0:49.3	Good.
0:50.3	Good to see you.
0:51.3	Good to see you.
0:52.3	You're looking Schfeld, Eric. You're looking Scheld.
0:55.0	Very nice. Oh my God, David. Good to see you. David Sacks is here as well. It's like a reunion of all of our former companies, David. It's like a reunion of all of our former companies, David. Why did you quit after all? Yes. My old boss. what was it like working with young Friedberg? Take us back. Can I tell a story? We have to come down to Orange County and they're like, hey, we're going to take the plane. And it was Eric's plane. We get on the plane and then he goes up and flies the plane. I'm in the back of the plane by myself. Was it a King Air? And I'm like, the CEO of Google's flying me down to Orange County. It was incredible. That was my first time actually hanging out with Eric. It was my Gulfstream. That's right. He was way too smart. Way too smart. Way too smart. Was he focused? Did he contribute? No. But he was very smart. smart okay that's kind of our consensus on the
1:46.0	pot as well look you guys know this guy well he's really that smart so he taught me more stuff than
1:52.5	most of any of the employees at google and then you left well tell us what you've been doing so
1:57.9	no no before that i got to ask you this question.
2:01.0	There was a recently deleted video from Stanford.
2:04.1	Oh, no.
2:04.7	You had a moment of clarity where you said, hey, you know, like at Google, people are like
2:10.1	too much work-life balance.
2:11.7	They need to commit.
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