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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Adapting to Technological Advances and Potential Consequences
Historically, inventions like the printing press and radio required human intervention for content creation and dissemination, ultimately empowering humanity. In contrast, AI has the potential to take power away by autonomously deciding what to broadcast and creating original content like music and political manifestos. The speaker expresses concern that similar to the Industrial Revolution's detrimental experiments such as European imperialism and Soviet communism, adapting to AI may involve perilous trials. Drawing parallels, they caution against repeating history by potentially resorting to new empires or totalitarian regimes to handle AI. The speaker emphasizes that humanity's adaptation to the Industrial Revolution was mediocre, warning that a similar mediocre response in the 21st century could lead to disastrous consequences for the survival of the human species.
