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Eric Schurenberg
Award-winning journalist and former CEO of Inc. and Fast Company
In this special episode, recorded at this years Dublin Tech Summit, Eric is joined by Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, acting director of the Centre for the study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University. For a dozen years, his research has focused on AI and other emerging technologies. Seán and Eric discuss what generative AI means for the information landscape; how to react to the deep reservations that AI developers have expressed; the lessons we should take from the debacle of social media; and what life will be like in a future of ever more capable AI.
In this episode we discuss:
- Generative AI
- ChatGPT
- What AI will do for the information landscape
- The lessons from Social Media
- The future of AI