Hoffman: AI Improves Humanity's Overall Risk Portfolio Against Pandemics and Climate
Reid Hoffman · No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman · Dec 21, 2023 · at 10:18
Reid Hoffman contrasts AI with other existential risks like climate change and pandemics, arguing AI provides the upside and solutions needed to mitigate them.
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“When you get to pandemic, maybe the only way to solve pandemic is AI. Well, a certain help for climate is AI. It's net, I think, strongly in the positive column. It doesn't to say that it might not add some existential risk characteristics to the overall portfolio, but your portfolio is improved within it relative to reduction of it.”
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