Podcast
Morning Wire
The book discusses the impact of AI, genetics, and biotechnology on our lives, work, and world, highlighting the potential benefits but also the risks of these technologies, including job displacement, security, privacy, and manipulation by biased AI programs. It also explores the global race for AI dominance and the need for human oversight and responsible development of these powerful capabilities.
As you know my new book Super Convergence is just out and in the book I highlight all these wonderful things that can happen and I also highlight a lot of the things that could go wrong and they could...
— Episode: The AI Revolution is Here | Saturday Ext...
Episode: The AI Revolution is Here | Saturday Extra
The book discusses the impact of AI, genetics, and biotechnology on our lives, work, and world, highlighting the potential benefits but also the risks of these technologies, including job displacement, security, privacy, and manipulation by biased AI programs. It also explores the global race for AI dominance and the need for human oversight and responsible development of these powerful capabilities.
As you know my new book Super Convergence is just out and in the book I highlight all these wonderful things that can happen and I also highlight a lot of the things that could go wrong and they could go horribly wrong.
The new book is just out. It's called Super Convergence, How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World.
The basic point of Super Convergence is that when we think of technology, we have these shorthand names for whether it's AI, machine learning, genetics, biotechnology. But really, it's just one thing. Every technology and every innovation is in many ways embedded in every other technology.
And so now that we're understanding, for example, how a plant diffuses proteins through a leaf, we're able to use those kinds of designs to create faster computer chips which give us better machine learning, better AI, increase our ability to understand and manipulate natural design. So everything is a loop.
I say this all the time. If you're just excited about all of this, you're missing it. Because while the upsides are incredibly, potentially exciting, you also have to be aware of the downsides.