Rapid Response: "You should be running toward AI," w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO)
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, breaks down his deep insights around artificial intelligence on Rapid Response. Schmidt, co-author of the book "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future," alongside Dr. Henry Kissinger and MIT’s Daniel Huttenlocher, says that we’re entering an unknown era with technology – one that requires extra vigilance to ensure that we amplify the positives and de-amplify the negatives. His advice to businesses: You need to be running as fast as you can toward AI applications. If your competitor gets there first, you'll be in trouble. Schmidt argues that AI will change business, society, and potentially humanity itself. "It's important that our systems not enable the worst of us, but instead promote the best of us,” he says.
Read the book "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future" from Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-age-of-ai-henry-a-kissinger/1139558876?ean=9780316273800
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| 1:05.0 | rapid response episodes with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Eric talks with me about what people and businesses most |
| 1:12.8 | misunderstand about artificial intelligence, and his passion and insight are striking. Eric will be one of |
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| 1:25.7 | on this episode why Eric's perspective is so useful. |
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| 1:42.7 | And now, let's listen to Eric Schmidt |
| 1:44.8 | outlined the good and bad of AI |
| 1:47.3 | and his lessons for how to responsibly |
| 1:49.6 | and profitably navigate between them. |
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