No one is debating the most consequential decisions that we're going to make,

which is how are we going to coexist with this kind of intelligence?

And I want to be very clear that we know this intelligence is going to occur in some way.

We just don't know how it will be used.

Thirty years ago with the advent of the Internet, we knew it was going to happen.

But we certainly did not know that once we connected everybody in the internet, we knew it was going to happen. But we certainly

did not know that once we connected everybody in the world, we would have all these problems.

Hello and welcome to the GZero World podcast. This is where you'll find extended versions of my

interviews on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer. And on the show today, can humans learn to

control artificial intelligence before it learns to control us? In the last two years of the

pandemic, more and more of our daily lives have moved from the physical to the digital world.

And unlike brick and mortar, where governments more or less maintain authority, digital sphere is still

the wild west. What's more AI-backed algorithms powering that world are increasingly becoming too

smart for us. So how do we prevent our future robot overlords from taking control? You've read books on that,

but in the new book, The Age of AI and Our Human Future,

former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,

former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt,

and MIT computer scientist Daniel Houtenlocker,

team up to try to answer that question.

And one of those folks, Eric Schmidt, joins me today.

Thank you. question. And one of those folks, Eric Schmidt, joins me today. The G0 World podcast is brought to you by our founding sponsor, First Republic.

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