Peter Diamandis: AI Will Cure All Disease, Reverse Aging, and You Have to Prepare
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What technological transformations are causing employment anxiety?
Every time our world goes through a technological transformation, there is some worker and employment anxiety. We want humans to retain agency, but how do we retain the agency where we have machines doing most of the cognitive work? White-collar jobs are going to go first. What do we say to that 45-year-old middle manager at the regional bank after he reads your book this summer?
The world's going to split into two. There's going to be a group of consumers who are sitting on their couch drinking a beer brought by their Optimus robot, you know, watching Netflix that's been created starring their family members fully AI virtualized. And it'd be those are the creators using AI to go and build Star Trek. That's the question. What do we do with this technology?
Welcome to Open Book. I am your host, Anthony Scaramucci. Joining us today, a dear friend, brother, although you're taking so many supplements now at this point in your life. You're my younger brother. I used to be able to say you were my older brother, but now you're probably a lot younger than me. Peter Diamandis, New York Times bestselling author.
How can we retain human agency in an AI-driven world?
and founder of over 25 companies in the area of AI health, tech, space, venture capital, and education. But he's the chief optimist of the United States of America. Title of his new book is We Are As Gods, A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. And of course, he wrote a book titled a while back called The Age of Abundance, which I loved and often referenced. Now, I see you as our optimist in chief, Peter. So it's great to have you here.
What future scenarios do we face with AI and consumerism?
And you and I have a 20 plus year relationship. We both grew up on Long Island. We're both the tallest people in our families. Let's put it that way, Peter. How's that? Okay, we're We're not necessarily tall as it relates to the universe, but at least in our families, we're very large, Peter. But anyway, tell me a little bit about how you got into all of this, and welcome to the show.
Dr. Scaramucci, a pleasure. I've got two universities. I'm giving out doctorate degrees. I'm going to give you two because you're that good.
Trust me, it wouldn't help me at home. No one would care. But anyway, I appreciate the thought.
I understand. I know my kids still make fun of the fact that I barely graduated medical school. You know, this is probably the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. You know, you wake up and there's a dozen miracles every morning. And it's hard to keep pace with the speed of change. And at the same time, I think one of the things that my co-author Stephen Kotler and I wrote about in Abundance, that there is nothing truly scarce, that we are heading towards a world where we're giving access to food, water, energy, health, education to every man, woman, child on the planet has become even more and more important. True. You know, we wrote Abundance in 2012, and that was not a buzzword. Today, it's a buzzword by, I think, every technologist out there.
And it is technology making this all happen. It's not better politicians. We haven't gotten smarter. It's technology making stuff that was not available available to everybody.
I want to say something to you. I'm going to make a stipulation and see if you agree with me or disagree with me. So I feel like we've gone haywire with our politics. I think we've lost our way. We've racked up a tremendous amount of debt, not held on U.S. balance sheet, $31 trillion. If you add what's held by the Federal Reserve, it's $37 trillion of debt. We've racked it up in a very short period of time. And we're in a tribal war. But yet 5,000 years of human progress and 5,000 years of technology, we're about to go exponential on a number of different things that could lead us to this wild wave of abundance. We've heard Elon Musk talk about it. We've heard you talk about it. And so I guess the question is, one, will the technology, will human innovation and entrepreneurship bail us all out of our dysfunctional politics?
And then number two, Peter, related to that question, how do we make this fair for the human population so we don't just have a group of
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What technological transformations are causing employment anxiety?
0:00–1:01
2
How can we retain human agency in an AI-driven world?
1:01–1:33
3
What future scenarios do we face with AI and consumerism?
1:33–11:14
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How does Peter Diamandis define abundance in the context of technology?
11:14–24:00
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What mindsets are essential for thriving during technological change?
24:00–30:22
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