LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on What Could Go Right with Our AI Future (Part One)

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Mar 26, 2025

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and an AI trailblazer, shares insights from his latest book, Super Agency. He argues for the immense potential of AI to revolutionize education with personalized tutors and discover life-saving cures. Hoffman emphasizes a proactive 'bloomer' mindset, focusing on AI's positive contributions despite prevalent fears. He advocates for responsible AI use and the necessity of regulating technology to enhance innovation while maintaining accountability. His optimistic outlook highlights how AI can empower individuals and improve societal outcomes.

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Reid Hoffman is one of the world’s most influential and successful entrepreneurs. The co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI, Inflection AI and part of the original team at PayPal, he has built companies that have shaped the internet and AI revolutions of the twenty-first century. As part of Reid’s staunch commitment to Democracy, he was a supporter of Kamala Harris in the 2024 US election.

In March 2025, Hoffman returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss how AI is rapidly changing our world and how we can use it inclusively to improve our lives and create positive change. Drawing from the themes of his new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future, he acknowledged the challenges of disinformation and dislocation in the jobs market but argued that we need to be optimistic about the immense potential of AI to increase individual agency and create better outcomes for society as a whole.

Hoffman argued that we must embrace AI’s most important opportunities: AI tutors that can personalise education for each student; machines that can rapidly discover cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer; and AI-crafted inventions that can prevent climate catastrophe. Hoffman set out a positive vision for an AI world where these possibilities, and many more, become a reality.

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