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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A brighter future of better education and scientific breakthroughs? Or a dystopian future of technology-driven chaos? Eric Schmidt, former Google chairman and CEO and coauthor of the newly released The Age Of AI: And Our Human Future, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane to discuss where artificial intelligence is leading mankind and the AI competition between the US and China, plus the feasibility of the “metaverse” and the nexus between work and longevity.

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0:00.0	Shall we play a game?
0:02.5	How about global thermonuclear war?
0:08.3	Fine.
0:09.7	All right.
0:15.3	It's Monday, November the 29th, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast,
0:24.2	examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover
0:29.2	Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I'll be the moderator today. Let's get right to it. Let's meet
0:33.4	the stars of our show, Three Wise Men we jockely and refer to as Hoover's Goodfellows.
0:37.6	That would be the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, and the geostrategist,
0:42.5	Lieutenant General, H.R. McMaster, Hoover Institution, senior fellows all. And today we're going to
0:47.3	actually make this conversation of Forsham. Joining us is Eric Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt is a
0:51.9	technologist and entrepreneur who served as Google's CEO and
0:54.7	chairman from 2001 to 2011. From 2018 to 2020, Eric Schmidt served as a technical advisor to Alphabet,
1:01.2	the holding company of Google, advising its leaders on technology, business, and policy issues.
1:05.7	He joins us today to discuss among other things, a book he's co-authored with Henry Kissinger,
1:09.4	the title of which is The Age of AI and Our Human Future. Eric Schmidt, welcome to Goodfellows. Good to see you. So,
1:16.9	a lot to talk about today, but let's begin with the book and let's talk about artificial intelligence.
1:21.6	And I think, Eric, for the purposes of this, concerning a lot of people who've grown up watching
1:25.8	2001 a Space odyssey,
1:27.7	what Arnold Schwarzenegger has taught us about robots.
1:30.2	I'll be back.
1:31.4	Perhaps you could define what exactly is artificial intelligence.
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