#12: Utopia Is Possible — If We Get This One Thing Right: Byron Reese on the Age of AI
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What you’ll hear in this episode:
- The AI consciousness debate: what 100+ AI leaders told Byron—and why he disagrees.
- Brains, minds, and consciousness: power, energy, memory, and why “the brain is not a computer.”
- LLMs as the fourth great knowledge store (after DNA, brains, writing) and why that matters.
- Fear vs. progress: the 2023 “pause AI” letter, exponential curves, and our rock-or-bear instincts.
- “We Are Agora”: humanity as a superorganism and what that suggests about kindness and society.
- Byron’s next book, The Open-Minded…
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