
All Things AI: An Interview With White House AI Guru Ben Buchanan
About this episode
Dmitri Alperovitch comes to the White House to interview Dr. Ben Buchanan, the White House Special Advisor on AI, about:
- The risks and benefits of AI
- What the US government is trying to achieve with the President's Executive Order on AI
- Why Terminator AIs are not coming to kill us but evil people using AI just might
- What the requirements to report to US government about the development of cutting-edge foundational models is all about
- How the US can maintain its lead in this technology
- White House's thinking on open source AI models
- US government's international AI strategy
- The plan for how to use AI inside US government
- The purpose and mission of the new AI Safety Review Board
- And why US government is concerned about China's use of AI
- And much more
Ben Buchanan's last book on AI (The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI): https://www.amazon.com/New-Fire-War-Peace-Democracy/dp/0262046547
His previous book on cybersecurity (The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics): https://www.amazon.com/Hacker-State-Attacks-Normal-Geopolitics/dp/0674987551
Dmitri's upcoming book "World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF1TKHY2
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