Welcome back to Untangled. Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Karen Hao, award-winning reporter covering artificial intelligence and author of NYT bestseller, Empire of AI. We discuss:
The scale-at-all cost approach to AI Big Tech is pursuing — the misguided assumptions and beliefs it rests upon, and the harms it causes.
How the companies pursuing this approach represent a modern-day empire, and the role narrative power plays in sustaining it.
Boomers, doomers, and the religion of AGI.
Alternative visions of AI that center consent, community ownership, context, and don’t come at the expense of people’s livelihoods, public health, and the environment.
How to reclaim our agency in an age of AI.
“The most successful founders do not set out to create companies. They are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so.'“ - Sam Altman, 2013 (from Karen Hao’s Empire of AI)
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