Feed Drop: AI Doomsday with Kara Swisher
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The Power of AI in the Cold War
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.
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