Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 11.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Sam Altman is the CEO and cofounder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. In this episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, Sam and Adam discuss AI's advances in creativity and empathy, its ethical challenges, and the role of human oversight. They also discuss strategies for adapting to a changing world and their hopes for technology that enhances human progress while maintaining human values. If you like it, find more deep conversations with great thinkers on ReThinking with Adam Grant wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 1:16.4 | Today we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, |
| 1:20.1 | handpicked by us for you. |
| 1:22.2 | Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is one of TED's most beloved speakers. |
| 1:26.5 | And in his podcast, rethinking, he talks to some of the |
| 1:29.5 | world's most renowned scientists, entrepreneurs, and creatives about how they think. In this episode, |
| 1:35.9 | Adam has an expansive conversation with Open AI CEO Sam Alman. Adam and Sam discuss the advances |
| 1:42.8 | AI has made in creativity, consider the ethical |
| 1:46.0 | challenges that this technology poses, and |
| 1:49.0 | debate the role of human oversight in developing |
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