Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us — literally — to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman is a wide and deep beginning foundation. He and Krista venture into unexpectedly relevant places, like the nature of friendship in human life, and what it would mean to create “contained, boundaried AI” — and Reid's use of words like “delightful” and “elevating” as qualities we can impart to this technology which, as we're hearing again and again, is going to change everything.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation,
0:05.4	funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder.
0:10.6	On the Templeton Ideas podcast, they dive deep into conversations with astrophysicists,
0:15.6	psychologists, and philosophers exploring the most awe-inspiring ideas in our world.
0:21.4	Learn more at templeton.org.
0:24.9	My lens on everything is the human condition.
0:28.7	How is the human condition revealed, engaged, and stretched in any given circumstance?
0:35.5	These are the questions I've been asking since a new generation of artificial intelligence
0:40.5	entered the world.
0:42.0	I've been longing to have a conversation that falls between the hype about this shiny
0:47.0	new thing and the dystopian predictions of the doom it will bring upon us.
0:52.6	There's much I don't understand, but I do understand this.
0:56.3	Shat GPT and its digital kin are students of mirrors on us.
1:03.2	What we are marveling when we look at them and what we are fearing is ourselves.
1:08.6	And we are being called to shape this young, if mighty technological force to human purpose.
1:16.1	In this season of on-being and those to come, we're going to engage this conversation
1:20.4	from many perspectives.
1:22.5	We begin with Reed Hoffman.
1:25.2	I was fortunate to be with Reed and some other original and wise technologists and thinkers
1:30.5	as Chat GPT-4 was released into the world.
1:34.9	What I came to understand from him was so far beyond what I was able to glean in the
1:39.6	media circus that ensued.
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