
How to be good enough in America (w/ Wajahat Ali)
How to Be a Better Human
Investing in Hope
They discuss the importance of hope and how investing in hope allows for a perspective that there can be a better story. They also mention the role of being a parent and how it compels them to be hopeful for their children's future.
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So the right to bear would be the ability legislative to do that, correct? In a sense, yeah. Because they're not going to do it out of the spirit of their own hearts. It certainly
Speaker 2
would not come from anybody out of the goodness of their hearts doing it. But it would have to be legislated. There would have to be protections. What I work on is creating the third-party community of people who assess algorithms. Right now, there's a lot of push for government regulation. But, you know, cynical me thinks that moving from one incredibly powerful centralized entity to another incredibly powerful centralized entity maybe isn't the way to go. that maybe there's an ecosystem and there could and should be third-party people who help you do these things. So, you know, you think about all of these like small shops that can do things like create plugins for things, right? So what if there were just people out there who created little tools, bots, little ways to help people fine-tune things for themselves rather than, again, the power entirely being in a company's hands or entirely being in the government's hands. We don't have anything like that. A starting point would be some sort of protections for people who are ethical hackers, essentially. Okay. So we're on our own, in other words, is what you're saying.
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Currently. Currently and always. We'll be back in a minute.
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So Mark Zuckerberg envisions a future of more AI agents than people, but he's not the only one. Everyone in AI is talking about autonomous agents that can pretty much do anything a person can do online and be very helpful. And it's a very lovely idea, like Jarvis in Iron Man. You've seen it do this. It's an assistant that doesn't talk back. They figure everything out for you and make it easier. And a lot of things are. But Jillian, explain how this could lead to economic chaos and talk us through your solutions because it does change things for people. And at the same time, using the internet in a lot of ways is artisanal. You kind of do it yourself. It's kind of you have to figure out everything yourself.
If there's one thing this show believes in, it's that finding joy and comedy in life is essential when being human gets tough. Wajahat Ali is a writer who knows this well. His charming and powerful stories bring to light the funny -- and difficult truth-- of life outside of the mainstream. Chris hears from Wajahat about his experiences as a brown Muslim in America and as a father whose young daughter had a complicated health diagnosis. Wajahat's heartwarming wisdom on the importance of letting go (and celebrating the good with the bad, even in the bleakest times) will have you reassessing everything -- from your worst self-destructive tendencies to what you value most.
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Wajahat's latest book, "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American" is out now.
For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
Wajahat's latest book, "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American" is out now.
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