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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month special edition of the Don Lemon Show. I'm so happy to have this next person on. One of the smartest people I know, smartest human beings, I believe to ever walk the earth,

a brilliant businessman, a tech legend, and an AI visionary.

And that is Mr. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO and chairman of Google, the co-author of the

fantastic and fascinating new book.

It's called Genesis, Artificial Intelligence, Hope and the Human Spirit.

And it is really, Eric, welcome, by the way. How are you?

It's great to see you, Don, and great to be on this show. Thank you very much. This is really Henry Kissinger's

words. He's writing. You're writing about Henry Kissinger and how he felt about, am I correct,

AI and the possibilities in the future

where it can take us or where it can end us?

In this new era, we're only at the beginning.

King Midas of ancient Asia Minor wished that everything he touched would turn to gold.

Dionysus, the god of pleasure, granted his wish. But soon Midas' dream became a nightmare.

His food and drink turned into lifeless gold.

In his despair, he sought relief in the river Pactylus, trying to wash away the curse? What does this tell us about humanity

trying to wield a power which they cannot possibly understand? So Henry, Dr. Kissinger,

had studied this since he was an undergraduate before we were all born, the relationships of

humanity to the world around us, Kant and those sorts of things. So when he learned about AI,

he said, oh my God, this is going to change the relationship that humans have with each other.

And remember, we've never had another species that was smarter and more capable than humans.

We've never had an alien intelligence that actually could subjugate us under certain circumstances.

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