The Race to Build God: AI's Existential Gamble — Yoshua Bengio & Tristan Harris at Davos

About this episode

Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay discuss their experiences at the Davos World Economic Forum and the implications of uncontrolled AI with Professor Yoshua Bengio.

Tristan Harris and Daniel Barcay offer a backstage recap of what it was like to be at the Davos World Economic Forum meeting this year as the world’s power brokers woke up to the risks of uncontrolled AI, followed by a panel discussion between Tristan and Professor Yoshua Bengio and moderated by Kenneth Cukier of The Economist, about how the race to build uncontrolled AI has real-world consequences for us all.

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Hosts: Daniel Barcay, Tristan

Guest: Yoshua Bengio

Topics covered

• AI
• Davos
• World Economic Forum
• existential risks
• uncontrolled AI

Keywords

• risks
• power brokers
• panel discussion

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Places: Davos

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