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Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

Update: 2023-05-16

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Celebrated historian Niall Ferguson, author of 17 books including Civilisation, a biography of Kissinger, a biography of the Rothschild family and Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe comes into to discuss AI. He recently wrote that the AI doomsdayists, including those behind the petition for a six month moratorium on AI development, should be taken seriously. But some of them think humanity’s end is around the corner. Niall and Winston discuss whether or not they are correct.

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Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

Niall Ferguson: Why AI won’t kill you and what Sam Altman got wrong

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