"What do you care most about in the world? That reminds me of the wallace stevens quote that the most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. Ahem, and i'll just have to pare that with one of my own, which is that life is too short for aphorisms." "Continued reverse engineering of the human mind is the thing i most worried about," he says. 'We go will be a touch and go race'
On this episode, we meet with cofounder of the Earth Species Project, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, and cohost of the podcast Your Undivided Attention, Aza Raskin.
Raskin gives us a general overview of what artificial intelligence is, how it’s about to become more deeply embedded in our lives, and how he and his team plan to use AI as a Rosetta Stone to translate the languages of other species to - hopefully - expand human consciousness, empathy, and awareness of the other beings we share this planet with.
About Aza Raskin:
Aza is the cofounder of Earth Species Project, an open-source collaborative nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal communication. He is also the cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology and is the cohost for the podcast Your Undivided Attention. Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Counsel, helped found Mozilla Labs, in addition to being named FastCompany’s Master of Design, and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/22-aza-raskin