Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit
30 January 2025 - 1 hour 31 minsContributor(s): Craig Mundie, Mairéad Pratschke | As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality.
But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen before.
Co-author Craig Mundie explains how his new book outlines a strategy for navigating the age of AI, charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear. It is the final book of the late elder statesman Henry Kissinger written in collaboration with technologist Eric Schmidt.
Mundie touches on how the book attempts to answer some of the biggest question...
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