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FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

FEED DROP: Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

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Aza joins Reid Hoffman & Aria Finger on the "Possible" podcasts to debate an AI pause, how software optimization controls our lives, and why we need aligned collective intelligence—not just aligned AI. This is a critical conversation with tech leaders abo

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This week on Your Undivided Attention, we’re bringing you Aza
Raskin’s conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger on their
podcast “Possible”. Reid and Aria are both tech entrepreneurs:
Reid is the founder of LinkedIn, was one of the major early
investors in OpenAI, and is known for his work creating the
playbook for blitzscaling. Aria is the former CEO of
DoSomething.org.

This may seem like a surprising conversation to have on YUA.
After all, we’ve been critical of the kind of “move fast”
mentality that Reid has championed in the past. But Reid and Aria
are deeply philosophical about the direction of tech and are both
dedicated to bringing about a more humane world that goes well.
So we thought that this was a critical conversation to bring to
you, to give you a perspective from the business side of the tech
landscape.

In this episode, Reid, Aria, and Aza debate the merits of an AI
pause, discuss how software optimization controls our lives, and
why everyone is concerned with aligned artificial intelligence —
when what we really need is aligned collective
intelligence.

This is the kind of conversation that needs to happen more in
tech. Reid has built very powerful systems and understands their
power. Now he’s focusing on the much harder problem of learning
how to steer these technologies towards better outcomes.

You can find "Possible" wherever you get your podcasts! And you
can follow Reid on YouTube for more of his content:
https://www.youtube.com/@reidhoffman.

RECOMMENDED MEDIA

Aza’s first appearance on “Possible”

The website for Earth Species Project

“Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman

The Moloch’s Bargain paper from Stanford
On Human Nature by E.O. Wilson

Dawn of Everything by David Graber

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