The Power of AI in the Cold War

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100 million Americans tuned in and I think it was 1983. Watched it at once. They had a whole PR campaign. Put your kids to bed early which actually increased the number of people who actually didn't watch it with their kids. Reagan's biographer later said that Reagan got depressed for weeks. It scared basically the bejesus out of both the Russians and the US. And it made visible and visceral the repressed idea of what we were actually facing. We actually had the power to destroy ourselves, he says.

There’s really no one better than veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher at challenging people to articulate their thinking. Tristan Harrris recently sat down with her for a wide ranging interview on AI risk. She even pressed Tristan on whether he is a doomsday prepper. It was so great, we wanted to share it with you here.

The interview was originally on Kara’s podcast ON with Kara Swisher. If you like it and want to hear more of Kara’s interviews with folks like Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman and others, you can find more episodes of ON with Kara Swisher here: https://link.chtbl.com/_XTWwg3k

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