Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence

It's like crazy. It's like, you know, it's kind of like, you know, 20 years of scenario planning on the Strait of Hour Moose and you go and do it anyway, and it's it's on that level of of idiocy. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. What makes the people who are inventing the most transformative technology of this moment, artificial intelligence, tick? How is this?

technology going to influence the world? How worried should we be about existential doom, which the founders of this technology themselves seem to take very seriously, and yet they are the ones who are building the potential doomsday machine. What impact will artificial intelligence have more broadly on our economy, on the job market? on our politics. And finally, how is the rise of the big AI companies transforming the power rankings in Silicon Valley and in the United States?

Are they actually eclipsing in various ways the influence of venture capital, which run ruled supreme for the previous 15 years? Well here to answer all of these questions, is Sebastian Malaby, one of the most distinguished writers about capitalism and the economy. He is the author, among other distinguished books, of More Money Than God, hedge funds and the making of a new elite and the power law, venture capital and the making of the new future.

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