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Azhar: US antitrust law fails by focusing solely on consumer prices
“And that is where the antitrust law has fallen afoul, certainly in the U S because it was focused fundamentally on cost to consumer, but we know that there are costs that are embedded elsewhere in the system.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 12:32 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Azhar: Giving AI software personality helps users get work done
“Having something that has a little bit of a personality absolutely helps you get your work done.”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 14:55 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
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Azhar: AI cannot be understood through corporate PowerPoint presentations
“This is not a technology that you can learn through PowerPoint that your juniors have presented to you, and you tick off. This is like the internet in 93 or 94, which unless you actually used it and started to grok what it meant, You would not be able to expla…”
Azeem Azhar Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 26:22 From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
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Azhar: Human evolution selected against the ability to comprehend exponential growth
“There are lots of reasons why, from an evolutionary perspective, exponential understanding would have been selected out.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 5:12 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Azhar: Exponential technologies bypass society's institutional shock absorbers
“And what we've seen, particularly in our politics, but also in the increasing strength of certain companies and industry sectors, these technologies tend to end run the shock absorbers of life.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 7:37 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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