E56: Balaji and Nathan

Balaji Srinivasan, investor, former CTO at Coinbase and GP at a16z, and writer of The Network State, joins Nathan to discuss polytheistic AI and AI gods, human-AI symbiosis, and how AI will be controlled. Moment of Zen is sponsored by Shopify: https://shopify.com/momentofzen for a $1/month trial period.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) - Episode Preview

(06:07) - Evolution of AI Systems

(09:39) - Challenges of AI Robustness

(29:54) - Intersection of AI and Politics

(52:14) - Regulation

(52:44) - Slippery slope of precedent setting

(54:00) - Role of AI in political chaos

(54:41) - Emergence of decentralized AI

(01:05:39) - AI's future as amplified intelligence

(01:13:00) - Polytheistic model of AI

(01:32:00) - Role of AI in Habitat Degradation

(01:33:32) - AI's ability to do differential diagnosis

(01:34:04) - ABC of economic apocalypse: AI, Bitcoin, China

(01:36:00) - Evolution of AI in chess and medicine

(01:38:22) - Difference between AI existential threat and economic disruption

(01:40:19) - Impact of cryptography on public infrastructure

(02:07:40) - Role of tribalism in AI