No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman

AI doomerism and calls to regulate the emerging technology is at a fever pitch but today’s guest, Reid Hoffman is a vocal AI optimist who views slowing down innovation as anti-humanistic. Reid needs no introduction, he’s the co-founder of PayPal, Linkedin, and most recently Inflection AI which is building empathetic AI companions. He is also a board member at Microsoft and former board member at OpenAI. On this week’s episode, Reid joins Sarah and Elad to talk about the historical case for an optimistic outlook on emerging technology like AI, advice for workers who fear AI may replace them, and why it’s impossible to regulate before you innovate. Plus, some predictions.
Aside from his storied experience in technology, Reid is an author, podcaster, and political activist. Most recently, he co-authors a book with GPT 4 called Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI.
00:00 Reid Hoffman’s birdseye view on the state of AI
03:37 AI and human collaboration in workflows
5:23 What’s causing AI doomerism
12:28 Advice for whitecollar workers
16:45 Why Reid isn’t retiring
18:25 How Inflection started
22:06 Surprising ways people are using Inflection
25:34 Western bias and AI ethics
30:58 Structural challenges in governing AI
33:15 Most exciting whitespace in AI
35:00 GPT 5 and Innovations coming in the next two years
44:00 What future should we be building?

[@anthonyleonard]

Thank you for this insightful episode! I'm especially grateful that you've taken your time to share your thoughts on the incredible transformation AI is creating, including its benefits, problems, our missteps, and opportunities. Looking forward to more enlightening discussions like this!

[@levelupai]

Love this insightful and interesting episode!

[@raymond_luxury_yacht]

love you guys. thanks. so valuable.

[@PaulSchwarzer-ou9sw]

Hoffman is great❤

[@UnDaoDu]

How does capitalism survive AGI when it makes 95% of all jobs redundant?

[@Mynestrone]

the capital part of capitalism still survives, so it would work absolutely fine for the owners

[@The_Uncertainity_Principal]

3k views for reid hoffman, founder of one of the largest revenue streams for the worlds largest company? Interesting to say the least