This week I'm the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI with researcher and thought leader David Shapiro. David is an incredibly knowledgeable man who goes into great depth on many of the most pressing issues around AI facing us as a species on his YouTube channel. In this show, we discuss: 

00:00 - Intro

02:00 - The fourth industrial revolution

08:30 - How should we prepare? Congress, the UN & geopolitics

14:00 - Politics, AI, and the gerontocracy

17:00 - AI Summit and China

20:00 - AI risk, and what we should do about it

25:00 - AI weaponization

27:30 - The possibility of controlling superintelligent AI

36:00 - Energy abundance & optimistic scenarios

39:30 - Work, meaning, job destruction, and status games

54:00 - Longevity escape velocity and significantly extending human life

60:00 - The ACE Framework

Check out David's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap

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