Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant
TED Talks Daily26 Jan 2025

Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Sam Altman is the CEO and cofounder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. In this episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, Sam and Adam discuss AI's advances in creativity and empathy, its ethical challenges, and the role of human oversight. They also discuss strategies for adapting to a changing world and their hopes for technology that enhances human progress while maintaining human values. If you like it, find more deep conversations with great thinkers on ReThinking with Adam Grant wherever you get your podcasts.


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The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them | Carlos Bautista

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26 Okt 201714min

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Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre | Anjan Sundaram

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