In this short episode, I’m sharing an excerpt from my recent interview with Kevin Kelly. He's got a new book coming out in May 2023, called Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. We’re going to release the full interview when the book is out, but in the meantime, it’s worth sharing with you some of Kevin’s insights into the topic of AI, which is one of the areas in which he is genuinely a world leader. Unless you've been living in a cave or under a rock, you're likely very interested in how AI technology is going to shape out - whether it is just one more iteration of the Silicon Valley hype machine, or whether this is something far more fundamental, something that threatens a number of our global institutions relating to democracy, to the economy, and to what it means to be human. Be sure to also check out my previous interview with Kevin Kelly, linked below in the show notes, as well as my recommendations of two other shows where you can learn more about AI. What We Cover:
Where we are right now on the path of AI development
How we can use AIs as interns and still keep our jobs or create new ones
The challenge of ‘ethical’ AI and how we can use AI to be better humans
Reasons to be optimistic about technology
Key Learnings and Takeaways:
There is no large-scale unemployment due to AI, but there is a big case for using AI chatbots as trained interns to offload your work to them
We can program ethics and morality into AI, but we currently don't have any consensus on what ethics and morality mean and how to be better than humans
Another frontier to break with AI is epistemological - how we decide what’s true and how we can automate trustworthiness
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