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The Steering Wheel Is in the Middle

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

On a Saturday night in September, Jan and I watched The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist on Netflix. When it ended, she said we had finally watched something thought-provoking. The film swings between terror and hope and lands where these films land: we all have to do our part to steer toward a good outcome. I agree. But the whole time, I kept hearing a sentence I have carried for twelve months. In 2009, the biologist E.O. Wilson said: “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” Most people quot...