AI and A-Bombs: Is Everything A-Okay? | GoodFellows

On the 78th anniversary of the only wartime use of nuclear weapons, is the human race at another moral crossroads, fearing what artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs might unleash? Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, John Cochrane, and H.R. McMaster to discuss AI’s promise and peril, followed by the three “GoodFellows” revisiting Harry Truman’s decision to drop the bombs in 1945. Just as crucial to mankind’s future: they debate the likely winner in an as-yet-unscheduled MMA bout pitting Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg against X’s Elon Musk. 

ABOUT THE SERIES

GoodFellows, a weekly Hoover Institution broadcast, features senior fellows John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, and H.R. McMaster discussing the social, economic, and geostrategic ramifications of this changed world. They can’t banter over lunch these days, but they continue their spirited conversation online about what comes next, as we look forward to an end to the crisis.

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00:00 - 1:38 : Introduction
1:39 - 11:05 : Impact of AI + Understanding AI
11:06 - 17:52 : Should we be worried about AI towards the election + actions/dangers
17:53 - 22:06 : Ideas about AI + Education POV
22:07 - 36:05 : How America will cope with AI + remedy for AI + innovation (biological)
36:06 - 40:23 : Did Harry Truman make the right call?
40:24 - 47:39 : What would’ve happened if the bombs did not drop? + Building of Weapons
47:40 - 52:59 :Will we use nuclear weapons in the next 78 years? + Future + Defense
53:00 - 1:06:09 : Lightning Round