Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

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Marshall Matters

The Spectator

47 episodes

2 months ago

What is the state of the arts? Winston Marshall, musician and co-founder of the band Mumford & Sons, explores the taboo and totemic issues within the creative industries in a series of interviews with artists, musicians, actors, comedians, and more…

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Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

Marshall Matters

33 minutes 29 seconds

2 years ago

Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

Celebrated historian Niall Ferguson, author of 17 books including Civilisation, a biography of Kissinger, a biography of the Rothschild family and Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe comes into to discuss AI. He recently wrote that the AI doomsdayists, including those behind the petition for a six month moratorium on AI development, should be taken seriously. But some of them think humanity’s end is around the corner. Niall and Winston discuss whether or not they are correct.

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