The risk that China uses AI to influence global economics and hence global politics is far greater than sentient AI. The danger, I would venture to guess, is a lower probability than the risk of an asteroid hitting planet Earth. It's silly to imagine today a robot could get away from us and really kill all humanity would want to in all those things. So we have to keep very close eyes on it.
After Kara and Nayeema discuss Senators Warren and Graham’s unlikely alliance on tech regulation, we turn to today’s guest: longtime venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. We discuss his take that AI will “free humanity from the need to work,” his early investments in climate tech, and what happens in the techno-economic war between the United States and China.
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