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Podcast: The Peter McCormack Show
Episode: Is There Life After Democracy? with Vijay Boyapati - WBD457
Description: Location: Los Angeles Date: Tuesday 1st February Company: Independent Role: Software Engineer and Author In 2005 Ray Kurzweil introduced the idea of the singularity: a point in the near future when artificial superintelligence surpasses human intelligence. In his book "The Singularity is Near", Kurzweil embraced the benefits such a future presented humans: "Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve." Yet, less than 2 decades later, technologists, futurists, and philosophers are now envisaging potentially catastrophic futures for our species. The conversion from...