Recode Decode: Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Sam Altman, the president of YCombinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, joins Recode's Kara Swisher for this live interview at Manny's in San Francisco, moderated by Manny Yekutiel. In this episode: (01:45) What did techies think was going to happen?; (06:35) Would the techlash have been the same if Hillary Clinton had won?; (10:31) Did tech develop too quickly?; (18:06) What would change if tech's leaders were more diverse?; (19:47) Why Swisher and Altman considered running for office; (25:38) What does fixing Facebook actually look like? (33:30) Where does the techlash go next?; (37:55) What can we do other than sit and wait?; (42:56) How to respond to accusations of sexual misconduct; (49:17) Race, cities and making tech companies more diverse; (55:38) Who owns your data?; (59:17) What happens when AI gets smarter than humans?; (1:04:12) Outrage and tech addiction; (1:12:39) Should investors expect less revenue from responsible tech companies?; (1:16:56) The crypto “scam” and privacy; (1:19:48) Final takeaways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:10.8	goodness with us all.
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0:30.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:34.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:39.8	second life and then was buried for good.
0:43.9	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:49.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
0:54.5	You may know me as the self-appointed mayor of the Apple Podcast charts, but in my spare
0:58.1	time I talk tech and you're listening to Rico D-code from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:02.4	Today we're going to play a live interview I participated in this week along with Sam
1:06.6	Altman, the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of Open AI.
1:10.7	We spoke at Manys, which is this new bar in San Francisco's Mission District dedicated
1:15.6	to civic engagement.
1:16.6	It's really a copy house bar, it's a bookstore, it's all kinds of things, such a fantastic
1:20.2	space.
1:21.2	The conversation was moderated by the owner of Manys, Mani Yucatil.
1:25.0	Let's take a listen.
1:27.3	Tonight's conversation is the technology and politics, how the fuck do we get here?
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