Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Historian Jessica Riskin of Stanford University talks about her book The Restless Clock with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What is the difference between human beings and machines? How has science thought about this distinction? When do we have agency and when are we constrained? Riskin discusses these issues and the implications for how we think about ourselves and the growth of artificial intelligence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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1:22.7	And now for today's guest, she has a historian and author Jessica Riskin.
1:27.7	She is the Jean-Paul Gimon director of the France Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary
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