Eric Schmidt, Google, and the Global Stakes of Artificial Intelligence

The Deeper Thinking Podcast 

In this episode, we explore Eric Schmidt’s vision of artificial intelligence not as an abstract future or market force—but as a geopolitical condition already underway. More than a profile, this is a meditation on temperament, strategy, and the ethics of speed. How does one of the digital era’s most influential minds think about leadership, trust, and the fragility of institutional strength under competitive pressure?

We trace the psychological and political architecture of the AI race, following Schmidt’s distinctions between founders and executives, startups and nations, urgency and judgment. His insights are neither nostalgic nor alarmist—but sharpened by decades of operational power. The result is a vision of intelligence—human and artificial—that demands not just innovation, but care.

Drawing from thinkers like Paul Virilio, Byung-Chul Han, Hannah Arendt, and Bernard Stiegler, we ask: how do we govern systems that learn faster than we can legislate? What happens when startup logic becomes geopolitical logic? And can our values survive the migration into code?

This is an episode about consequence, not just capability. About relevance, not just leadership. About what it means to build—and deserve—the future.

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What if the most urgent question is not what we’re building—but who we trust to notice what it means?

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