Paul Stamets

Oh, I need to see that.

Yeah, business school is just teaching you how to make some money.

What do you think artificial intelligence means in terms of the future of the human race?

I think the real fear among people that are cynical about artificial intelligence is that it's going to replace us and will find us irrelevant, and that we're creating a digital life.

We're essentially assembling it with all the knowledge of the human race, all the understanding of how human beings interact with each other and how we interface with the world, and we're creating something that has – when you think about computing intelligence –

When you think about acquisition of data, the ability to form an understanding of any subject, we're basically there already.

And that's just accelerating.

And it's going to get to the point where these things become sentient in whatever, however you define it.

You know, we were already in a situation where by most people's understanding, it would pass the Turing test.

I think we can steer this.

Well, I think we're always steering it.

I think this is the battle that human beings have been involved in since the beginning of time.

I think this is probably the reason why religion was created in the first place or observable religion.

I think we have always realized there's this battle of good and evil in us.

And a part of it becomes a part of it comes rather from how we originated.

We originated as these barbarian tribes competing for resources, fighting off other marauding barbarian tribes, fighting off predators and trying to stay alive.

So we've unfortunately got this intense history of chaos and

And of savagery that we're trying to move past.

Right.

Slowly but surely over time.