Questioning tech industry reasoning and sensational journalism

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The speaker highlights how unsettling it is that some high-ranking individuals within the tech industry are propagating crazy theories. They attribute this phenomenon to the limited understanding of the technology's bigger picture by those involved in its development. The speaker criticizes sensational journalism for driving such narratives to gain attention, pointing out how absurd claims like chat GPT leading to the extinction of all life on earth lack substantial support or reasoning.

Shermer and Herold discuss: social robots, sex robots, robot nannies, robot therapists • flying cars, jetpacks and The Jetsons • Masahiro Mori • emotions, animism, mind • emotional intelligence • artificial intelligence • large language lodels • ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-5 and beyond • the alignment problem • robopocalypse • robo soldiers • robot sentience • autonomous vehicles • AI value systems, and their legal and ethical status.

Eve Herold is an award-winning science writer. She has written extensively about issues at the crossroads of science and society, including stem cell research and regenerative medicine, aging and longevity, medical implants, transhumanism, and robotics and AI.