Reid Hoffman AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

Published: Oct. 5, 2023, 6 p.m.

In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging \u201cgenerative AI.\u201d Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us \u2014 literally \u2014 to our senses? This inaugural conversation with Reid Hoffman is a wide and deep beginning foundation. He and Krista venture into unexpectedly relevant places, like the nature of friendship in human life, and what it would mean to create \u201ccontained, boundaried AI\u201d \u2014 and Reid's use of words like \u201cdelightful\u201d and \u201celevating\u201d as qualities we can impart to this technology which, as we're hearing again and again, is going to change everything.