During a recent talk at Stanford University, I couldn’t resist quipping, “Everyone is busy here to make the rest of the world useless.” My latest talk in Palo Alto, the new haven for the “masters of the universe” amid the decline of the wolves of Wall Street, was supposedly about my latest book “The Indo-Pacific,” which chronicles the emerging US-China Cold War in the 21st century.
But standing before a mixed audience of tech experts, former military personnel, and academics, discussing the sweeping, overwhelming, and ultimately decisive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our lives was tantalizingly inevitable.
Historian Yuval Noah […]
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