The race to build AI that benefits humanity | Sam Altman

The TED Interview

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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this new season of the TED Interview, conversations with people who make a case for...optimism. Not some blind, hopeful feeling but the conviction that somewhere out there are solutions that, given the right attention and resources, can guide us out of the dark place we’re in. We share those ideas—and the people propelling them—to light a possible path forward.

For the first episode: AI. Will innovation in artificial intelligence drastically improve our lives, or destroy humanity as we know it? From the unintended consequences we've suffered from platforms like Facebook and YouTube to the danger of creating technology we can't control, it's easy to see why people are afraid of a world powered by AI. But in this interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman makes a case for AI's potential to make the future better for all of us—and explains how his company is leading that charge with an unusual new business model.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Felix Overholzer-G and I'm one of the hosts of a podcast called After Hours
0:07.0	from Ted.
0:08.0	Each week, my friends and colleagues from Harvard Business School break down the latest
0:12.5	in business and culture.
0:14.2	This season, we're talking about quiet, quitting, Twitter, innovation in rice farming, and
0:19.9	why recycling might be a really bad idea.
0:23.1	Stay tuned for our big end of the year awards and predictions for 2023.
0:28.6	Two episodes where everything is on the table.
0:32.0	Find After Hours wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:40.4	Estrangement takes many forms.
0:42.9	Sometimes we sever ties with our family or friends, and sometimes they sever ties with
0:47.7	us.
0:48.7	How many years would you say it's been since you have been in a room with your three kids?
0:54.1	2008.
0:55.1	14 years?
0:57.1	Yeah.
0:58.1	I'm Anna Sayell, and this is a Strangement, a new three-part series on death, sex, and
1:03.5	money.
1:04.5	Listen wherever you get podcasts.
1:07.5	Hello there.
1:14.9	This is Chris Anderson, and I am hugely, hugely, tremendously excited to welcome you to a new
1:21.0	series of the Ted interview.
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