You know what is it the human does best and what is it the machine can do best and you know let's let's let each

Be sort of preeminent in its own own realm and pair the two together I think if we think about it more like that

Then we are able to kind of master AI and we will be able to kind of reap the rewards of the technology while minimizing

a lot of the downside risks. I'm Mary Long and that's Jeremy Khan. He's the AI editor at Fortune magazine and the author of the new book Mastering AI, a survival guide to our super-powered future.

My colleague Alex Friedman caught up with Khan earlier this week to discuss the current state

of the AI arms race and to take a look to the future.

They also talk about what convinced Bill Gates

to move forward with Microsoft's initial open AI investment,

how LLMs are being used to shorten clinical trials,

and the changing relationship between man and machine. So you are the Fortune magazine AI writer and editor and you were a tech reporter

before this.

At what point did you first hear the term artificial intelligence and when did you really

start taking it seriously?

I guess I first heard the term probably sometime in 2015 even before I had become a tech reporter at Bloomberg, I was doing some finance coverage and working for a magazine Bloomberg had that I was doing a story about London's little tech hub, kind of emerging tech hub.

And at the time, people said the most successful exit,

but in some ways the most disappointing exit

from the London tech scene was this company

called Deep Mind, which I knew very little about, but it had just

been acquired a couple years before by Google for $650 million, which was the

best exit that the London Tech Hub had had at the time, but people were upset because they thought that this could actually potentially be, you know, a huge future company and they thought maybe it sold out too early.

I didn't know anything about Deep Mind, but I started to look into it and that's when I first sort of heard about

artificial intelligence and then a few months after writing that story I got a chance to move over to the

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