Is Trump a Good Fit for the AI Era? (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
0:28 Sam’s place on the AI accelerationist-pauser spectrum 4:55 Predicting AI’s near-term impact 12:17 Is regulating AI a fool’s errand? 18:32 Does strong AI governance court authoritarianism? 30:26 Can Trump and Elon be trusted on AI? 37:08 How Sam thinks AI should be regulated 51:13 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation, https://www.secondbest.ca/). Recorded November 12, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
The China question Elon as an AI asset for TrumpWill Trump ease or heighten tensions over Taiwan? Taking AI takeover seriously AI, consciousness, and the human-to-AI handoff
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, Sam. |
| 0:30.4 | Hey, Bob. How are you on? |
| 0:31.9 | I'm doing okay. Let me introduce this. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:36.1 | This is a Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | You're Samuel Hammond, the senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation. |
| 0:44.3 | You also have an affiliation with the Niskanen Institute, I believe. |
| 0:49.2 | Center, yes. |
| 0:50.4 | Center, center. |
| 0:52.6 | Are there, by the way, are there junior economists at the foundation for american |
| 0:56.5 | innovation i am the only economist so oh we've unveiled the little secret here so this is i don't want |
| 1:04.9 | to say false advertising sam but come on if there are no junior economists did you really be calling |
| 1:10.4 | yourself a senior economist? |
| 1:13.1 | Think about it. |
| 1:14.1 | That's fair. |
| 1:14.6 | That's fair. It just has to match my visa. |
| 1:16.2 | Okay. |
| 1:17.7 | All right. |
| 1:19.2 | So, anyway, thanks for coming on the podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | You've been here before. |
| 1:23.5 | And I'm really looking forward to this conversation because as I understand, you're going to cheer me up. |
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