Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In his second appearance, Reid Hoffman joined Tyler to talk everything AI: the optimal liability regime for LLMs, whether there’ll be autonomous money-making bots, which agency should regulate AI, how AI will affect the media ecosystem and the communication of ideas, what percentage of the American population will eschew it, how gaming will evolve, whether AI’s future will be open-source or proprietary, the binding constraint preventing the next big step in AI, which philosopher has risen in importance thanks to AI, what he’d ask a dolphin, what LLMs have taught him about friendship, how higher education will change, and more. They also discuss Sam Altman’s overlooked skill, the biggest cultural problem in America, the most underrated tech scene, and what he’ll do next.

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Recorded May 9th, 2023.

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0:00.0	Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
0:09.4	bridging the gap between academic ideas and real world problems.
0:13.5	Learn more at mercatis.org.
0:16.2	For full transcript of every conversation, enhanced with helpful links, visit
0:21.1	ConversationsWithT Tyler.com
0:26.6	Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations With Tyler.
0:29.9	Today I am literally sitting here with Reed Hoffman at Greylock.
0:33.9	Reed needs no introduction, but most notably recently he has published a new book
0:38.7	in Prop 2, Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, which has made the Wall Street Journal best
0:43.7	seller list and the book is co-authored with GPT-4.
0:47.6	Reed, welcome.
0:48.6	Always great to be here.
0:50.2	Let's try some GPT questions.
0:52.3	Over a five to ten year time horizon, will the demand for lawyers go up or down in the
0:57.5	US?
0:58.5	It's interesting.
0:59.5	I think it will go up.
1:02.5	Why up?
1:03.5	I think it will go up because I think the questions around sorting out who owns what and so
1:10.0	worth and the degree of kind of risk management and detailed legal contracts will actually
1:15.9	go up because of the amplification that AI is as amplification intelligence.
1:21.4	And there's the new class of entities that will lead legal treatment.
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