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Dean Ball

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
404 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

But we just go step by step and we try to flex our muscles and getting better at this technology.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And eventually we do.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And in the process of both solving problems it creates and solving problems with it, probably there's more of the latter than the former.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

In the process of doing that,

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

We actually develop way more intuition about these weightier sort of questions of the long term.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

I think the beautiful part about, you know, my perspective on this is that, like...

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

if we actually do what I've described as this middle path, well, we'll be solving problems that we have anyway.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And so I don't need to be right about the profound changes of 50 years from now.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

I bet I am, but I don't need to be because it's good to solve problems, right?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And so that's how when you...

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

If you ever do, and I really don't... Only if you really wish.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

But if you want to go look at the AI action plan, read it in that light.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

Read it as... That is the idea behind it, in my view.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

Is like, well, look, there's all this stuff we can do.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And we can debate about superintelligence and what that means and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

I would kind of agree, by the way, that like...

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

there's not going to be some version.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

There's not going to be some future version of like, quote unquote, using AI that makes your life feel radically different.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

Like in and of itself, what will make it feel radically different is when everyone around you is using it and every organization has thoroughly adopted it.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"

And like when organized, when the structure and capabilities of organizations change and people's lives change, that's when things will be different.