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Tools or Agents? Choosing Our AI Future | Anthony Aguirre

Tools or Agents? Choosing Our AI Future | Anthony Aguirre

Update: 2025-08-22
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What if the most desirable AI future is made of powerful tools, not autonomous agents? Physicist and futurist Anthony Aguirre joins us to unpack the Tool AI pathway, how incentives, liability, and design choices could steer us toward AI that empowers people rather than replaces them. We also situate this episode in AI Pathways, our two-scenario project exploring Tool AI and d/acc futures. Explore the project: https://ai-pathways.existentialhope.com/

On the Existential Hope Podcast hosts Allison Duettmann and Beatrice Erkers from the Foresight Institute invite scientists, founders, and philosophers for in-depth conversations on positive, high-tech futures.


Full transcript, listed resources, and more: https://www.existentialhope.com/podcasts


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Tools or Agents? Choosing Our AI Future | Anthony Aguirre

Tools or Agents? Choosing Our AI Future | Anthony Aguirre