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December 8, 2023 46 mins

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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