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It Could Happen Here

How Scared Should You Be About AI?

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Robert sits down with Noah Giansiracusa, math professor at Bentley University, to talk about the reasonable and unreasonable fears people have over AI.

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0:35.0

Hey, welcome to It Could Happen here, a podcast about things falling apart.

0:41.4

And today it's kind of going to be a conversation about,

0:44.9

is shit falling apart? Are we all about to be devoured by a rogue AI? Is your job about to be devoured?

0:52.1

By a rogue AI? These are the questions that we're going to, you know, talk around and about

0:57.3

and stuff today. And with us today is Noah John Cerecusa, a math professor at Bentley University.

1:03.6

Noah, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.

1:06.8

And I'm reaching out, we're talking right now because there's an article that was put up in

1:12.4

The New York Times on March 24th, 2023 titled, You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill and

1:18.6

We're Out of Blue Pills, which is a fun title by Yvall Harari, Tristan Harris, and Azaraskin.

1:26.7

And it's an article that is kind of about the pitfalls and dangers of AI research of which

1:32.9

there definitely are some. I enjoyed your thread on the matter. I thought it was a lucid breakdown

1:38.1

of the things the article gets right and the area is in which I think they're a bit fear mongery.

1:42.6

So yeah, I think that's probably a good place to start. Unless you wanted to start by just kind of

1:47.1

generally talking about where you kind of are on AI and what you kind of think, you know, the

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