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Into History.

com. If I'm known for anything other than not that Lindsey Graham, it's as a history

podcaster. I've got a few of them, American history tellers, American scandal,

the one you're listening to now, History Daily, but I'm not a historian. I'm not trained in history at all.

Instead I have a Masters of Business Administration and MBA. My undergrad is in

business too and this education has been useful for sure. It introduced me to new modes of thinking, new tools for decision-making, all very helpful

as I manage my professional career and as I manage my podcast production company now.

But any business person will tell you,

MBA or not, one of the biggest challenges they face is uncertainty.

How do you manage risk?

Make decisions, lead a company,

when you don't know what's around the corner, when the variables are unknown.

Recently, we begun to face one of the biggest unknown variables in maybe humanity's history, artificial intelligence. But even inside one of the leading AI

companies, Open AI, the ones behind chat gPT, there is uncertainty and fear. Was AI

the revolutionary technology they were bringing into the world in fact dangerous?

Some company leaders began to think so and felt that Sam Altman, Open AI's co-founder and

CEO, had lost his way, becoming too focused on commercialization.

So believing that AI would soon be autonomous, and with mounting concerns of its safety for

the public, Open AI's chief scientist staged a coup, resulting in the shocking firing of CEO Sam Altman.

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