Can Humanity Be Protected from Artificial Intelligence?

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of artificial intelligence, including regulation and narrative capabilities, featuring insights from various guests.

Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Mike Warren to discuss Pope Leo’s encyclical on artificial intelligence and explain Jonah’s looksmaxxing routine. The Agenda: —The encyclical —Can AI write good narratives? —AI disclosure laws —Creative destruction —Regulating AI —NWYT: Clavicular's take on books Show notes: —Ben Sasse at the Manhattan Institute —Klon Kitchen on the AI threat The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Steve Hayes

Guests: Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, Mike Warren

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• AI regulation
• creative destruction
• narrative writing
• AI disclosure laws

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• AI regulation
• narratives
• creative destruction
• Pope Leo
• disclosure laws

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pope Leo, The Dispatch, Manhattan Institute

Books & works: Clavicular

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