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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Google CEO: AI Is Creating Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! They Leaked Our Secrets At Google!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

He scaled Google from startup to $2 trillion success, can Eric Schmidt now help save humanity from the dangers of AI?  Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences. He is also the author of bestselling books such as, ‘The New Digital Age’ and ‘Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit’.  In this conversation, Eric and Steven discuss topics such as, how TikTok is influencing algorithms, the 2 AI tools that companies need, how Google employees leaked secret information, and the link between AI and human survival.  (00:00) Intro  (02:05) Why Did You Write a Book About AI?  (03:49) Your Experience in the Area of AI  (05:06) Essential Knowledge to Acquire at 18  (06:49) Is Coding a Dying Art Form?  (07:49) What Is Critical Thinking and How Can It Be Acquired?  (10:24) Importance of Critical Thinking in AI  (13:40) When Your Children's Best Friend Is a Computer  (15:38) How Would You Reduce TikTok's Addictiveness?  (18:38) Principles of Good Entrepreneurship  (20:57) Founder Mode  (22:01) The Backstory of Google's Larry and Sergey  (24:27) How Did You Join Google?  (25:33) Principles of Scaling a Company  (28:50) The Significance of Company Culture  (33:02) Should Company Culture Change as It Grows?  (36:42) Is Innovation Possible in Big Successful Companies?  (38:15) How to Structure Teams to Drive Innovation  (42:37) Focus at Google  (45:25) The Future of AI  (48:40) Why Didn’t Google Release a ChatGPT-Style Product First?  (51:53) What Would Apple Be Doing if Steve Jobs Were Alive?  (55:42) Hiring & Failing Fast  (58:53) Microcultures at Google & Growing Too Big  (01:04:02) Competition  (01:04:39) Deadlines  (01:05:17) Business Plans  (01:06:28) What Made Google’s Sergey and Larry Special?  (01:09:12) Navigating Media Production in the Age of AI  (01:12:17) Why AI Emergence Is a Matter of Human Survival  (01:17:39) Dangers of AI  (01:21:01) AI Models Know More Than We Thought  (01:23:45) Will We Have to Guard AI Models with the Army?  (01:25:32) What If China or Russia Gains Full Control of AI?  (01:27:56) Will AI Make Jobs Redundant?  (01:31:09) Incorporating AI into Everyday Life  (01:33:20) Sam Altman's Worldcoin  (01:34:45) Is AI Superior to Humans in Performing Tasks?  (01:35:29) Is AI the End of Humanity?  (01:36:05) How Do We Control AI?  (01:37:51) Your Biggest Fear About AI  (01:40:24) Work from Home vs. Office: Your Perspective  (01:42:59) Advice You Wish You’d Received in Your 30s  (01:44:44) What Activity Significantly Improves Everyday Life?  Join the waitlist for The 1% Diary - https://bit.ly/1-Diary-Waitlist-YT-ad-reads Follow Eric:  Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/bX3DQSIKuOb  Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/7JNHZYGKuOb  You can purchase Eric’s books, here:  ‘Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/JdoJEJ7KuOb  ‘The Age of AI And Our Human Future’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/bO1UnZ9KuOb  ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/4D9a9icLuOb  ‘How Google Works’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/pEnkHTeLuOb  ‘The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives’ - https://g2ul0.app.link/37Vt9yhLuOb  Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes  You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb  Follow me: https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb  PerfectTed - https://www.perfectted.com with code DIARY40 for 40% off NordVPN - http://NORDVPN.COM/DOAC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Someone was leaking information on Google, and this stuff is incredibly secret.

0:04.8

So what are the secrets?

0:06.5

Well, the first is...

0:07.4

Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google, who grew the company from $100 million to $180 billion.

0:14.4

And this is how.

0:15.6

As someone who's led one of the world's biggest tech companies, what are those first

0:18.9

principles for leadership business and doing something great? Well, the first is risk-taking is key. If you look at Elon,

0:24.8

he's an incredible entrepreneur because he has this brilliance where he can take huge risks and fail

0:29.8

fast. And fast failure is important because if you build the right product, your customers will

0:34.3

come. But it's a race to get there as fast as you can because you want to be first.

0:39.3

Because that's where you make the most amount of money.

0:41.3

So what are the other principles that I need to be thinking about?

0:43.3

So here's a really big one.

0:44.3

At Google we have this 70-2010 rule that generated $10, 20, $30, $40 billion of extra profits over a decade.

0:51.3

And everyone could go do this.

0:53.3

So the first thing is, what about AI?

0:55.4

I can tell you that if you're not using AI at every aspect of your business, you're not going to make it.

1:00.8

But you've been in the tech industry for a long time. And you've said the advent of artificial

1:04.8

intelligence is a question of human survival. AI is going to move very quickly. And you will not

1:10.7

notice how much of your world has been co-opt move very quickly. And you will not notice

1:11.2

how much of your world

1:12.4

has been co-opted by these technologies

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