Brooke Gladstone
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1,676 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2d ago
Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The implications of that little news story seem more nightmarish than dreamy, but Altman's dreams are of the singularity, which in his business means the moment when artificial intelligence, machine intelligence, surpasses human intelligence.
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Last Saturday, Altman went on to say, I've been waiting for this my whole life and I think it's going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world.
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But if that's coming, if that's here, then what happens next?
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Workers across all sectors are
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are having nightmares based on Altman's dream.
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A lot of people wonder, what happens if AI's dominance in the news and in our fantasies is not merely a bubble?
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Will we all lose our jobs?
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And what if it is a bubble?
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Will we all lose our pensions?
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It seems like a kind of lose-lose situation for regular people.
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Nevertheless, it consumes vast amounts of our bandwidth because of AI's elephantine presence in the financial markets, in the news, and in how we view our future.
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Trump loves a winner, even if it's a mirage born of Altman's dreams.
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Now Cory Doctorow knows a dream when he sees one.
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He's been writing science fiction since he was a teenager.
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More importantly, for our purposes, he can clearly distinguish dreams from reality.
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a science fiction writer, yes, also a tech journalist, a visionary, he probably wouldn't say that, but it's true, a special advisor at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of many books.
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His latest is The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late.
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Welcome back to the show, Corey.
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So let's first tackle the metaphor at the heart of your brilliant book.
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In automation theory, a centaur is someone whose work is assisted by a machine, like helping them get from place to place by using a car or a bike, someone wearing glasses or a hearing aid to see or hear better, or using a mail sorter, or more to the point, a computer, to boost their efficiency.
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