Faisal Hoque Talks About Humanity, AI, and What Comes Next

Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Faisal Hogg.

I'm about to have a productive conversation with Mike Vardi. Bysel, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today on a productive conversation to talk about. I'm holding this on my iPad, but it's, well, there we go, transcend. uh it is uh unlocking humanity in the age of ai we're we're uh this is a hot button topic not just now but i think it's gonna be a hot button topic for a while and why what i wanted to chat with you right at the beginning was i know you'll normally get questions like why did you decide to write this book etc etc but for me it's more like um how how do you feel knowing that you're probably gonna be talking about this topic for a very very very long time considering the the tenor around humanity and AI and how they I mean, the w the genie's out of the bottle, right?

So w I mean, this is gonna be something you're gonna be uh kind of obviously dealing with or conversing about for quite some time. So how how are you uh prepared for that? Because I mean, you've got the book, but People are going to be diving into this and it it's changing so rapidly, right? Yeah, look, I've been in tech business for my entire career, which is now 30 plus years.

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