Power and Progress Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Tech giants Microsoft and Alphabet Google have seized a large lead in shaping our potentially AI-dominated future.

Big Tech is Bad, Big AI Will Be Worse.

He's got a forthcoming book called power and progress Our 1000 year struggle over technology and prosperity.

There's a really interesting book that I read a couple years back Power and Progress and what it's an interesting study where I think we've always been adapted. I'm a pro technologist. Me too. I you know started my career out in the Bay Area and but we always assume that just technology for technology's sake will be beneficial to society.

That's what we've been fed and that's what we have been taught and their study really looks at technology over a thousand years and whether it is innately beneficial to society or whether society needs to put some level of rules around it in order to make it net beneficial and you know you go back to industrial revolution and basically you know the first hundred years of the industrial revolution were not beneficial to society as a whole they've been a benefited a small number of individuals but largely gave society nothing more than you know disease and you know it took things like regulations on limiting work weight, regulations on child labor. It took certain organizations like labor unions etc to ultimately get that you know technology leap forward to be something that was broadly beneficial to society and I think that is something that we need to think a little bit more about is not how do we stop AI, not how do we I'm not trying to put this technology in a box and kill it.

He is also the author of six books, including the New York Times bestselling Why Nations Fail and Power and Progress, Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.