100 million Americans tuned in and I think it was 1983. Reagan's biographer later said that Reagan got depressed for weeks. It scared basically the bejesus out of both the Russians and the US. The important point that we mentioned this AI dilemma talk that we put online is that after this one and a half hour or whatever it was film they aired a one hour debate where they had Carl Sagan and Kenri Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Eli Wiesel studied the Holocaust to really debate what we were facing. That was a democratic way of saying we don't want five people at the Department of Defense in Russia and the US deciding whether humanity exists tomorrow or not.
After Kara and Nayeema review the week’s A.I. news, including Sam Altman’s Senate testimony and the viral AI-generated image of the Pentagon in flames, we turn to Tristan Harris — co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and a key voice among the calls for slowing down the A.I. arms race.
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