Politico December 6, 2024
By Derek Robertson

With help from Mohar Chatterjee

Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. For today I spoke with Christopher DiCarlo, an author and philosopher whose forthcoming book “Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It” explores how humanity can build ethical guardrails around powerful artificial intelligence tools. We discussed his foundational belief in the importance of critical thinking about the future of technologically advanced societies, AI storming the Nobel Prizes and the prescience of Philip K. Dick. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:

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