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Sam Harris speaks with Mustafa Suleyman about his new book, \\u201cThe Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century\\u2019s Greatest Dilemma.\\u201d They discuss the progress in artificial intelligence made at his company DeepMind, the acquisition of DeepMind by Google, Atari DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold, the invention of new knowledge, the risks of our making progress in AI, \\u201csuperintelligence\\u201d as a distraction from more pressing problems, the inevitable spread of general-purpose technology, the nature of intelligence, productivity growth and labor disruptions, \\u201cthe containment problem,\\u201d the importance of scale, Moore\\u2019s law, Inflection AI, open-source LLMs, changing the norms of work and leisure, the redistribution of value, introducing friction into the deployment of AI, regulatory capture, a misinformation apocalypse, digital watermarks, asymmetric threats, conflict and cooperation with China, supply-chain monopolies, and other topics.

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Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That\\u2019s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life\\u2019s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.