Liv Boeree: Moloch, social media misery, culture wars and the existential threat of AI

Just how grave a threat to the future health and happiness - and even the survival - of humanity is the intensification of social media-driven culture wars and the intractable rise of artificial intelligence into every area of our lives?

Liv Boeree, the Win-Win podcast host, science broadcaster, World Series of Poker and European Poker Tour champion, and co-founder of Raising for Effective Giving, details to Unfiltered host Joe Warner why she believes the next two decades are among most dangerous and destiny-defining time for our species since we climbed down from the trees and took our first steps on the savanna.

In a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation Liv explains how Molochian forces on social media networks are hellbent on manipulating us, first as individuals in a race to the bottom as we seek validation from complete strangers to praise our perfect bodies, jobs, relationships and lives that bear little resemblance to reality. And manipulating us as a society into evermore vocal tribes to fuel the culture war fires and treat anyone we encounter online as a terminal threat to our indubitable worldview.

Liv also reveals her extensive conversations with AI experts working behind the scenes on the technology and how every single one of them has confided their grave concerns over the potential catastrophic capabilities of AI's power and influence if its current growth trajectory continues unchecked. She outlines her fears for the future of our species, and the planet, if AI is allowed to continue its meteoric rise into every aspect of our lives without any oversight, limitations or jurisdiction.

Liv also outlines what she believes need to happen - and soon - in a co-ordinated strategy of governments and corporations - to guarantee the safety of our species and ensure AI becomes the life-extending and existence-enhancing technology we want, and not the totalitarian paper-clip maker of our worst nightmares.

But it’s not all bad news. As Liv explains, some simple steps - taken by you as an individual and collectively as a society - can walk us back from the edge of the abyss. And there’s even a hope that all the new powers that exist thanks to the advent of new technology could herald a utopian future for every single one of us.

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