Robert Wright is a journalist and author.
Is AI the next stage of human development? Some see it as another tool, while others view human-machine integration as a major shift in how we develop. What do recent advances in AI tell us, and is evolution the right framework for understanding them?
Expect to learn why Robert is interested in AI through an evolutionary lens, why most people still don’t grasp the magnitude of what’s coming, how AI will fit into the broader context of human evolution and civilisation, what the most legitimate concerns from the AI doomer camp are, if we are close to hitting the singularity, and much more…
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“you learned around that you know because what was what was really interesting to me was i went through i got whiplash from 20 15 16 when i read superintelligence then 20 17 18 i'm real worried there's going to be a fast takeoff scenario or computer brain interfaces and we're all going to be under the”
Every so often the world of ideas is shaken by what the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn famously dubbed a "paradigm shift." As Robert Wright shows in this pathbreaking book, such a shift is occurring now - one that wi…
“I've told you this before but you wrote probably the most influential book in my life, which was the moral animal and it was the thing that got me started on the trajectory of thinking about evolutionary psychology of studying human nature more deeply. Why are you now writing about AI given your heritage?”