AGI Might Make Humans Useless...Or Not. Robin Hanson on Passing the Torch Podcast Episode #3

In this mind-bending episode, we sit down with renowned economist and futurist Robin Hanson to explore the frontier of artificial general intelligence. What happens when AI matches—and surpasses—human-level cognition? Robin walks us through potential future scenarios, from brain emulations and whole-brain simulations to radically transformed economic and social structures.

We dive deep into the implications of AGI: How will society reorganize itself? What happens to work, creativity, and human purpose? Could we be living through the most consequential technological transition in human history?

But we don't just theorize—we test the waters ourselves. Emile and I conduct a live Turing test on the show, putting AI to the ultimate challenge: Can it convince us it's human? The results might surprise you.

Whether you're an AI optimist, skeptic, or somewhere in between, this conversation will reshape how you think about intelligence, consciousness, and what it means to be human in an age of thinking machines.

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