Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril – Smart Drug Smarts

In Episode #111, Jesse speaks with futurist and author Calum Chase about his book Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence, and the increasing impacts of artificial intelligence on the world's business and society -- and the future of humanity itself. The prospect of creating a true "AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence) capable of matching human-level thinking is probably the most transformative tech possibility in the coming decades. But that's ignoring the more exciting/terrifying piece of the AI speculation game: If we can figure out how to manufacture human-level cognitive performance, there's no reason to suspect that at that point, the sky is not the limit. Buckle up for a conversation that is both sober and mind-bending -- covering topics from Technological Unemployment to how we can guarantee the morality of political systems when we don't know for sure which intelligences are actually conscious. And hang around -- if you dare -- for a Ruthless Listener Retention Gimmick about one of the most taboo subjects on the Internet: A rationalist, secular recipe for Hell (or something close).