Politico October 11, 2024
Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. This week I spoke with Rohit Krishnan, an engineer, economist, venture capitalist and all-around AI raconteur who writes the Strange Loop Canon Substack. Krishnan recently proposed in an essay a new framework for AI regulation based on “human flourishing,” and here we discussed the difficulty of educating government on AI, the difficulty of identifying talent (in any setting) and a whole slew of sci-fi book recommendations. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:
What’s one underrated big idea?
Almost everything in the world is downstream of strong talent selection, and our methods of selecting talent are getting worse as we try to do it even...