Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics, w/WaitWhat CEO Jeff Berman

Masters of Scale

WaitWhat

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Are AI’s harshest critics causing irreversible harm to humanity? How far should leaders lean into AI? And just what would Reid sound like speaking Chinese with a British accent?

Reid Hoffman sits down with CEO of WaitWhat and longtime friend Jeff Berman to tackle these pressing questions and more. Join them in an unguarded exploration of how the AI landscape has continued to shift in the six months since Reid published Impromptu, the book he co-authored with ChatGPT.

Reid also gives a sneak peek into his work with Microsoft's unreleased AI text-to-speech tech, and discusses why he chose not to join Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and other tech leaders in signing an open letter warning about the existential threat of AI.

Plus, you’ll hear how early stage business leaders should tap their network to take advantage of AI, and how larger organizations should create long-term strategic plans that can adapt at the drop of a hat.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, it's Marsha Mukutonina and I'm a producer on Masters of Scale.
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0:45.0	I was talking to Jeff Bases.
0:50.0	He was like we could give people the ability to do the audio book and their own voice with AI.
0:54.6	And we could also give them the ability to choose other voices if I wanted to have, you know,
0:59.7	read as a British accent and eventually here's him speaking perfect Chinese which of course I can do zero of next year I suspect it'll just be which version of the read voice you want do you want the Masters of Scale Reed Voice? Do you want the
1:13.2	Fireside Chat read voice? Do you want the Reed Hoffman doing his
1:17.8	Humphrey Bogart interpretation? I mean, whatever the thing is, we'll have all of
1:22.1	that as part of it.
1:23.0	And that's again human amplification.
1:25.0	Hi listeners,
1:30.0	it's Jeff Berman,
1:31.0	CEO of Weight What, the company that brings you masters of scale.
1:35.0	As a longtime friend of Reed Hoffman's, I wanted to capture the sort of conversation we would have off-mic,
1:41.0	a conversation about the growing impact of AI and what
1:45.2	leaders and aspiring leaders can do not just to survive but to thrive in this new
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