The A.I. Prompt That Could End The World

Will the AI bubble pop or will AI permanently reshape our society? Jon sits down with Stephen Witt, an investigative journalist and author of “The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip” to talk about Stephen’s dire warning in the New York Times about an AI prompt that could end the world. The two discuss the data centers taking over towns across America (and propping up our economy), young people’s quickly evolving relationship to “chat,” and what hope they both have — more than you would expect — for our AI future.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
07:52 - What is AI capable of right now?
10:21 - What is jail breaking in relation to AI?
13:28 - Right-wing and left-wing political filters
15:11 - Ad break
17:57 - Right-wing and left-wing political filters, potential of AI with no filters
21:05 - Rising popularity of AI insurance
24:38 - AI manipulating data
30:26 - Is it possilbe to mitigate mental health issues with AI
36:53 - Building a conscious for AI/creating an “off” switch
41:23 - AI data centers and energy resources
44:37 - Ad break
45:42 - AI data centers and energy resources (cont’d)
58:30 - Are we engineering away the things that make us human?
1:01:20 - What’s the optimistic take on AI?

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