The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Religious thinking is shaping the future of technology: AI is talked about as a godlike force and tech leaders promise us digital salvation. Greg Epstein argues that we need to see tech as our era's most influential religion - can he help us understand where this is all headed?

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1:00.8	Hey, everyone. This is Daniel. And this is Aza.
1:05.2	So Aza, you and I spend a lot of time in Silicon Valley talking to different people who are
1:08.9	building technology about what they're building.
1:11.3	And with AI, it's really interesting to look at people's motivations, right?
1:15.1	I mean, obviously, people who are building for the sake of economics or building because
1:20.1	they like to build, but there's a whole bunch of other kind of motivations going on, don't
1:23.7	you think?
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.7	I think that's right.
1:26.7	It's especially interesting because you cannot talk about AI without talking about mythological
1:32.8	powers.
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