How AI Will Enhance Human Potential, Not Replace It (Reid Hoffman)

Speaker A: As we develop AI, how does that change our epistemology of the world? If our AI is saying something that we don't really fully understand, what does that mean? Speaker B: It becomes an article of faith where you're like, hey, look, it's really intelligent. It can't explain it to my puny biological mind. Speaker A: Maybe that will be a new form of thinking and that what that means for epistemology, what it means for reasoning, what it means for deducing ontology, metaphysics, what is actually really there, may have new landscape in it.

Speaker B: The book talks a lot, of course, about agency and how AI is going to elevate us. Speaker A: As part of this kind of thesis that I've been advancing that we're homo technae than homo sapiens is because we're already forms of cyborg. Speaker B: AI is just on this— it's a sort of a different species that is operating on a very different timescale. Speaker A: You know, in some number of centuries, maybe decades, maybe millennia, those new entities are to us like we are to squirrels. Speaker B: We are so satiated, so amused by our magical devices that we've opiated ourselves Does AI make that better, worse?

Speaker A: The dialogue around AI is so often just dominated by all of the fears, concerns, uncertainties, risks, and you don't get the future that you want by eliminating the futures you don't want. You get the future you want by conceptualizing and imagining it and going towards it. Speaker B: Hey, welcome to The Generalist Podcast. I'm your host, Mario. You might have heard the saying, the future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. Our goal with this podcast is to distribute the future a little more evenly by having conversations with the people that see it first.