Usually once we put out a name for viewers questions, there’s no single subject that dominates. This time was totally different. The questions we obtained had been overwhelmingly targeted on synthetic intelligence: Do A.I. methods pose an existential menace to humanity? Will robots take our jobs? How may these machines doubtlessly make our lives — and the lives of our kids — higher?
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So I requested the present’s senior editor, Roge Karma, to hitch me to speak by them. We additionally focus on my blended emotions in regards to the calls to “pause” A.I. growth, why I’m much less fearful about rogue A.I. methods than the incentives of the businesses and international locations growing A.I., the necessity for a “public imaginative and prescient” for A.I. growth, whether or not A.I. companions can assist deal with widespread loneliness, why I’m skeptical that A.I. advances will result in skyrocketing financial productiveness, the likelihood that A.I. advances will result in a post-work utopia, why I consider A.I. much less as a standard know-how and extra as a “hyper object,” what A.I. methods are unveiling about what it means to be human and extra.
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This episode of “The Ezra Klein Present” is produced by Roge Karma, Kristin Lin and Jeff Geld. Reality-checking by Michelle Harris and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Unique music by Isaac Jones. Viewers technique by Shannon Busta. The manager producer of New York Occasions Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Particular due to Sonia Herrero and Kristina Samulewski.
