Eric Schmidt: The Age of Agents, Superintelligence, and Why Europe Is Falling Behind
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The regulators regulate before they innovate. My favorite example is that five years ago Brussels wrote the um AI they their AI strategy. I helped write the one for the US, and the US one said Run as fast as you can. Align it with human values. And if bad things happen, fix them immediately. The Europeans wrote.
You can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this. And you can't run startups in a limited market where there's a lot of rules like that. I'm Nikola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. And today I'm Joined by Eric Schmidt, one of the most influential technology executives of our time. Eric was CO of Google from two thousand one to twenty eleven.
And has since become one of the leading voices. On AI advising governments, writing books. And arguing that AI will change the world more than most of us expect. Eric, great to have you here. I'm so glad to be here. And let me just tell you, what you have done in Norway and for Norway is extraordinary. But
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