In this episode we hear from Jaron Lanier at his Tribeca Film Festival Talk. He discusses the implications of AI to our reality and social paradigms. We also cover other relevant topics like Jamie Metzl's book Hacking Darwin and MIT researcher Lex Freidmen's work in autonomous vehicles.
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