In this episode:

• Sam Hammond, senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, joins the podcast to talk about artificial intelligence and its transformative aspects on modern society
• what AI offers human society to advance our economy and our society, and the potential dangers of AI run amok
• how AI and super-intelligent machines that match or exceed human cognition will mean for human nature and what it means to be a human being

Texts Mentioned:

• “Attention is All You Need” by Ashish Vaswani
• Science, Scientism, and Society webinar
• Jon Askonas Conservative Conversations episode
• “Common Sense on AI” by Sam Hammond and Jon Askonas
• “AI and Leviathan: Part I” by Sam Hammond
• “AI and Leviathan: Part II” by Sam Hammond
• “AI and Leviathan: Part III” by Sam Hammond
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri
• fai.org
• “Second Best” substack by Sam Hammond

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