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Eric Topol

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Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And it's good for the world, ideally.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

But getting back, is there anything you're worried about in AI?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

I mean, because I know you're upbeat about its net effect.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And we've already talked about amazing potential for efficiency, productivity.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

It basically upends a lot of economic models of the past, right?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Yeah.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Yeah.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And, you know, there's obviously many of these companies have ways to try to have efforts to anticipate that.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

That is alignments and various safety type parallel efforts like Ilya did when he moved out of OpenAI and others.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Is that an important part of each of these big efforts, whether it's OpenAI, Google, or the rest of them, Anthropic, that they put in resources to keep things from going off the tracks?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

So because of AI, do you think you'll write any more books in the future?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Yeah, it's a really important point.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And I understand that completely.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Now, when you write for the Free Press, which will be besides the Conversations podcast and the Marginal Revolution, what kind of things will you be writing about in the Free Press?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Well, I'll look forward to reading that.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

So besides a polymath, you might be my favorite polymath, Tyler.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

You know that.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

You're also a futurist.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Because when you have that much information ingested and now, of course, with a super performance of AI to help, it really does help to try to predict where we're headed.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Have I missed anything in this short conversation that you think we should touch on?