George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I hope it allows her and her classmates to focus more and to talk to each other more.
Yeah.
But then, John, there's this thing coming called AI, which is like a tsunami.
If social media was like a bunch of choppy waves that nearly drowned us, here comes this tsunami.
And people ask, is it going to be good or bad for us?
Well, of course, there'll be ways in which it's good for us.
But-
You can't have lived through the social media decade or decade and a half and be sanguine about what a much bigger intrusion of technology into our lives is going to do.
Because it's not just a mouthpiece.
It's not just a way for us to algorithmically...
yell at each other, it replaces us in so many different sectors and fields.
And what is that going to do to our humanity and to our ability to live together?
I heard Sam Altman say to Joe Rogan, wouldn't it be awesome if we had an AI president?
And he began to imagine what that AI president could do and how he could drill down into every single citizen and know exactly what they wanted.
Then somehow the
mathematical total of all those um drillings down would give the president the right policy and i'm just thinking it's a nightmare i mean admittedly altman then kind of backed off it said maybe there'd be some problems with it but you could tell that for him this was a sort of tempting vision of the future
That's a good question.
And by the way, maybe 12 years ago, I interviewed the lieutenant governor of California, whose name was Gavin Newsom, because he had just published a book about how to improve government through technology.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yes, exactly.
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