Are the Dangers of AI Exaggerated? (Making Sense #435)
Sam Harris
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Sam Harris is the host of the widely acclaimed Making Sense podcast and the creator of the Waking Up app, which offers a modern approach to living a more examined life through in-depth mindfulness training and secular wisdom. He is also a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers, including The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. Sam’s work spans a broad range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, political polarization, rationality—but generally focuses on how a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world can transform the way we live. Sam has practiced meditation for over 30 years, studying with Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western teachers in both the United States and abroad. He holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
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Sam Harris introduces the first episode of The Last Invention, a new podcast series on the hype and fear about the AI revolution, reported by Gregory Warner and Andy Mills. Andy is a reporter and editor, formerly of The New York Times, where he helped create their audio department and shows like The Daily and Rabbit Hole. Gregory Warner was a foreign correspondent in Russia and Afghanistan, and the East Africa bureau chief for NPR. He created and hosted the podcast Rough Translation. He also publishes stories on This American Life and in The New York Times. The Last Invention is a limited run series with eight total episodes. You can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts, where episodes will be released weekly. You can sign up for their mailing list on Substack at https://longviewinvestigations.substack.com/, subscribe on their website at longviewinvestigations.com, and find them on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@UCZkzshZF-yb_68KHHbZ64dg Become a channel member for full-length episodes of the Making Sense podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@samharrisorg/join Subscribe to the YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=samharrisorg Follow Sam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samharrisorg/ Follow Sam on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Samharrisorg/ For more information about Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org
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