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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: More Advanced Technology, More Questions

HEARSAY CULTURE RADIO

Episode 291

December 13, 2023

00:56:20

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Hosted by Dave Levine

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

When OpenAI launched in 2015, it had already raised $1 billion from investors like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Microsoft, and Amazon. To understand the direction of Artificial Intelligence today, what better place to start than the creator of the star tech platform, ChatGPT?

Hearsay Culture Network host Denise Howell joins Dave in this December 2023 discussion. In this broad discussion, they delve into Altman, his dramatic ousting and return to OpenAI and continued pushing of boundaries with a new venture: Worldcoin, a biometric iris cryptocurrency raising serious privacy and fraud concerns. Along the way, they comment on AI’s effect on human tendencies, political divisions, and pornography. More critically, the two scrutinize what Sam Altman may have in store for the world while discussing dangers AI poses to us.

“I can’t think of too many areas of life where AI is not about to permeate our economy.”

-Denise Howell

“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.”

-Sam Altman

Lead photo by @Pixabay

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Denise Howell

Denise is host of HCN's Uneven Distribution and co-host of HCN's R&D with D&D. A podcasting industry original and veteran blogger, she has co-hosted Triangulation, conversations with the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology, and has been contributing on Leo Laporte’s TWiT Network for 17 years. Having been credited with coining the term “blawg,” she has blogged on CBS Interactive and is a technology lawyer (Berkeley Law, ’90), advising corporate and individual clients on issues at the intersection of emerging technologies and the law.

HOST BIO

DAVID LEVINE

Dave Levine is the founder and host of Hearsay Culture. He is a Professor at Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School). From 2014-2017, he was a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is also the co-author of Information Law, Governance, and Cybersecurity (West 2019). A regular contributor to Slate, Dave has been published in leading newspapers, websites, and academic journals in the US and EU.

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