Emmett Shear: Life After Twitch, Jeff Bezos Lessons & AI Doomsday Odds

Is AI gonna kill us all? Uh Maybe. McShear is the CEO of Twitch. It was acquired by Amazon in 2014. I started Twitch. To help people watch other people play video games on the internet. The creator and co founder of Twitch watch other people play video games. Who knew? I guess that's the answer.

What types of ideas are you noticing or standing out to you that are interesting? For the first time in maybe five or seven years, it feels like credibly trying to start a consumer internet company like the ones that like I was so excited to start in 2007 is like potentially a good idea. That's because of AI. You mentioned AI might become so intelligent it kills us all. This podcast is really growing. I don't I don't want the world to end. I think it's gonna be okay. But it's such The downside is so bad, it's like it's really probably worse than nuclear war.

That's a really bad downside. I think of it as a range of uncertainty. And I would say that the true probability I believe is somewhere between Feel like I can rule the world a no way

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