The End of Human Driving? with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | On With Kara Swisher

So if an AV is provably 50 times safer than a human being, do you think we should allow human beings to drive? Hi everyone from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is on with Kara Swisher, and I'm Kara Swisher. Today I'm talking about applied artificial intelligence with Dara Khashrashahi, the CEO of Uber. While a company that's known mostly for ride shares and food delivery may not seem like an obvious AI pioneer, the truth is almost everything Uber does is powered by AI.

I've known Dara for years, in fact, I was the first one to tell him he got the CEO job at Uber. And since then he steered the company through tough times and into profitability, and now he's leading the charge as they move aggressively into autonomous vehicles. Uber has partnered with almost every global AV company in the world, and although the transition will take decades, Dara expects that eventually all Ubers and potentially all cars will be driven by software. I want to talk to Dara because he's very straightforward and very clear about where he wants Uber to drive to, get the joke. But it's also critically important to understand other issues around AVs like safety and the importance of AI in creating the ability for these cars to do the things they do, which is miraculous in many ways.

This is the fourth installment of the Discovery series on AI, which is jointly presented by Johns Hopkins University and Vox Media. It was taped live at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. Our expert question comes from David Plough, who was the campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, a senior advisor to Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign, and a former chief advisor and board member at Uber. Stick around.

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