What if the biggest question about AI isn’t what it can do, but what’s left for us to do?
We used to imagine AI as the co-pilot. Now that metaphor may already be outdated. In this episode, Mike and Ronald take a philosophical flight through the rapidly changing relationship between humans and AI.
Who actually controls the route when AI systems can plan, code, execute and coordinate better than humans? And what happens when the human in the loop becomes little more than a legal signature or a symbol of trust?
Listen to or watch episode 94, “Copilot, Pilot or…?”
Mike and Ronald discuss Bill Gates’ recent thinking on AI and employment, the disappearance of human-in-the-loop processes, the economic consequences of automation, the enormous infrastructure behind AI, and whether we might ultimately move back toward personal, local and on-premise intelligence. They also wrestle with a bigger question: if AI brings us into an age of abundance, what makes a human life meaningful?
The conversation ends somewhere more hopeful: perhaps humans aren’t becoming obsolete pilots. Perhaps, with AI, we’re becoming the Wright brothers and sisters of an entirely new technological age.
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