The race to build AI that benefits humanity with Sam Altman | The TED Interview

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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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. For the first episode: artificial intelligence. Will innovation in AI drastically improve our lives, or destroy humanity as we know it? Head of TED Chris Anderson sits down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who 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	Hey there, it's Elise Hugh, continuing our TED Audio Collective Friday series.
0:08.6	We're back with another episode of a TED original podcast.
0:12.0	This one is The TED Interview, hosted by head of TED, Chris Anderson.
0:16.0	I said a lot of TEDs there, didn't I?
0:18.5	If you like what you hear, subscribe to The TED Interview, wherever
0:22.0	you're listening to this.
0:30.7	Hello there. This is Chris Anderson, and I am hugely, hugely, tremendously excited to welcome
0:37.3	you to a new series of the TED interview.
0:40.4	Now then, this season we're trying something new.
0:43.6	We're organizing the whole season around a single theme, albeit a theme that some of you may consider inappropriate.
0:51.2	But hear me out.
0:52.6	The theme is the case for optimism. And yes, I know the world has
0:59.2	been hit with some extraordinarily ugly things in the last few years. Political division,
1:04.7	a racial reckoning, technology run amok, not to mention a global pandemic and impending
1:10.6	and impending climate catastrophe, what on earth are we thinking?
1:13.7	In this context, optimism just can seem so naive and unwanted almost, annoying.
1:20.3	So here's my position. Don't think of optimism as a feeling. It's not just this sort of shallow
1:24.3	feeling of hope. Optimism is a search.
1:29.3	It's a determination to look for a pathway forward.
1:33.7	Somewhere out there, I believe, I truly believe, there are amazing people whose minds
1:39.9	contain the ideas, the visions, the solutions that can actually create that pathway forward.
1:48.3	If given the support and resources they need, they may very well light the path out of this
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