![]() This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin. ![]() ![]() Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at /ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at. God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn Mentioned:Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell developers are willing to keep designing technologies that they think may destroy humanity and more. systems reveal far more about humanity than we like to admit, why we might be in a “sorcerer’s apprentice moment” for artificial intelligence, why we often turn to myth and science fiction to explain technologies whose implications we don’t yet grasp, why A.I. development, why programs like ChatGPT can profoundly unsettle our sense of reality and our own humanity, how the behaviors of A.I. We discuss how Silicon Valley’s particularly weird culture has altered the trajectory of A.I. How do we learn to navigate - even embrace - the weirdness of the world we’re entering into?Įrik Davis is the author of the books “High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies” and “TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information” and writes the newsletter “Burning Shore.” For Davis, “weirdness” isn’t just a quality of things that don’t make sense to us, it’s an interpretive framework that helps us better understand the cultures and technologies that will shape our wondrous, wild future. It’s going to look, feel and function differently from the world we have grown to recognize. But if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s this: The future - shaped by technologies like artificial intelligence - is going to be profoundly weird. In recent months, we’ve witnessed the rise of chatbots that can pass law and business school exams, artificial companions who’ve become best friends and lovers and music generators that produce remarkably humanlike songs.
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