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The Narrow Path: Sam Hammond on AI, Institutions, and the Fragile Future

The Narrow Path: Sam Hammond on AI, Institutions, and the Fragile Future

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AI development is racing ahead without guardrails, creating an unstable dynamic that could end in dystopia or chaos. Sam Hammond joins to explore how we can find the narrow path between these extremes—before it's too late.

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The race to develop ever-more-powerful AI is creating an unstable
dynamic. It could lead us toward either dystopian centralized
control or uncontrollable chaos. But there's a third option: a
narrow path where technological power is matched with
responsibility at every step.

Sam Hammond is the chief economist at the Foundation for American
Innovation. He brings a different perspective to this challenge
than we do at CHT. Though he approaches AI from an
innovation-first standpoint, we share a common mission on the
biggest challenge facing humanity: finding and navigating this
narrow path.

This episode dives deep into the challenges ahead: How will AI
reshape our institutions? Is complete surveillance inevitable, or
can we build guardrails around it? Can our 19th-century
government structures adapt fast enough, or will they be replaced
by a faster moving private sector? And perhaps most importantly:
how do we solve the coordination problems that could determine
whether we build AI as a tool to empower humanity or as a
superintelligence that we can't control?

We're in the final window of choice before AI becomes fully
entangled with our economy and society. This conversation
explores how we might still get this right.

Your Undivided Attention is produced by
the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on
X: @HumaneTech_. You can find a full transcript, key
takeaways, and much more on our Substack.

RECOMMENDED MEDIA

Tristan’s TED talk on the Narrow Path

Sam’s 95 Theses on AI

Sam’s proposal for a Manhattan Project for AI Safety

Sam’s series on AI and Leviathan

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace essay.

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre McCloskey

The Paradox of Libertarianism by Tyler Cowen

Dwarkesh Patel’s interview with Kevin Roberts at the FAI’s annual
conference

Further reading on surveillance with 6G

RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES

AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?

The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive

The Tech-God Complex: Why We Need to be Skeptics

Decoding Our DNA: How AI Supercharges Medical Breakthroughs and
Biological Threats with Kevin Esvelt

CORRECTIONS

Sam referenced a blog post titled “The Libertarian Paradox” by
Tyler Cowen. The actual title is the “Paradox of
Libertarianism.”

Sam also referenced a blog post titled “The Collapse of Complex
Societies” by Eli Dourado. The actual title is “A beginner’s
guide to sociopolitical collapse.”

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