today i am joined by a technologist, entrepreneur and the ceo who took google public, eric schmidt. thanks for being here. >> thank you, ari. so happy to be part of the show. >> right now you're very focused on artificial intelligence. you've been called upon by the united states government, the pentagon among others, to figure out how to make this a good thing more than a danger. i want to play for you just some of the people at the top of these fields talking about ai. take a listen. >> punch a button at the start of the morning and all the goods and services we're getion now would be turned out by robots. >> it promises to create a vastly more productive and efficient economy. the way we think about ai is colored by popular culture and by science fiction. >> the idea the there's going to be a general ai over lord that subjugates us or kills us all i think is not something to worry