is can we have the good of that energy, entrepreneurial risk taking, without some of the bad? and the answer is yes. again, we can learn from history. united states has always been an entrepreneurial nation but technology and the corporate sector was under better institutional controls and regulation. it was no less innovative in the age of early computers, aerospace innovations, antibiotics, but it was that energy was being channelled towards things that were better for humanity. i think we can recreate that. are you somebody who, like elon musk actually, not so long ago, just a few months ago has now begun to worry that al might take us to a place where we are no longer masters of the machine but the machines may become masters of us? i mean, how far do you go down the doomsday track? no, i m not worried about that. i think the current architecture of ai is unlikely to create anything like the human mind and i also worry that some of that discussion
,and the answer is yes. again, we can learn from history. united states has always been an entrepreneurial nation but technology and the corporate sector was under better institutional controls and regulation. it was no less innovative in the age of early computers, aerospace innovations, antibiotics, but it was that energy was being channelled towards things that were better for humanity. i think we can recreate that. are you somebody who, like elon musk actually, not so long ago, just a few months ago has now begun to worry that al might take us to a place where we are no longer masters of the machine but the machines may become masters of us? i mean, how far do you go down the doomsday track? no, i m not worried about that. i think the current architecture of ai is unlikely to create anything like the human mind and i also worry that some of that discussion of existential risk really takes our attention off the more mundane and daily user of ai
things attitude and you re absolutely right on valley is a great innovation machine and we are very fortunate to have benefited from some of the innovations it s created but also at the same time, the same culture of silicon valley has been the thing that s pushed us towards more and more automation, less and less intention to what the average worker needs inside an elitist attitude towards technology and i think with the advent of ai, all of that could accelerate and create a bigger disaster, so the question is can we have the good of that energy and entrepreneurial risk taking without some of the bad and the answer is yes, again, we can learn from history. united states has always been an entrepreneurial ordination but technology and the corporate sector was under institutional controls and regulation, it was no less innovative in the age of early computers, aerospace innovations, antibiotics. but it was that energy was being channelled towards things that