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Podcast: We have to control AI before it controls us, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Two children and a robot. We have to control AI before it controls us, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Transcript

Listen: Tech companies set the rules for the digital world through algorithms powered by artificial intelligence. But does Big Tech really understand AI? Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Ian Bremmer that we need to control AI before it controls us.

What's troubling about AI, he says, is that it’s still very new, and AI is learning by doing. Schmidt, co-author of “The Age of AI: And Our Human Future,” worries that AI exacerbates problems like anxiety, driving a human addiction cycle that leads to depression.

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