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The Glenn Show

Robert Wright – War and the AI Race

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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0:00 The uncertain future of AI

4:46 What would it mean to “lose the AI race” to China?

8:15 The promise and peril of artificial general intelligence

12:01 The international policy challenges of AI

14:32 Can Trump deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine?

18:46 Are there any good argument for Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense?

23:55 Bob: With Iran weakened, Israel faces a decision: bombs or diplomacy

28:29 The continuing assault on Gaza

32:33 Antiwar speech codes

37:57 Apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing

43:15 Missed opportunities to turn the temperature down in Israel

51:29 Bob: The international community has little sway over Israel

54:25 The advantages of cognitive empathy

Recorded December 17, 2024

Links and Readings

Bob’s Substack, the Nonzero Newsletter

Nonzero on YouTube

Thomas Nagel’s essay, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

Bob’s most recent conversation with Thomas Friedman

Glenn’s essay, “Self-Censorship in a Time of War”

Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

Ilan Papé’s book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Bob’s Nonzero essay, “The Truth about Hamas”

Bob’s 2002 Slate essay, “Was Arafat the Problem?”



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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:21.8

Thank you.

0:23.5

Hello, everybody.

0:24.6

This is Glenn Laurie.

0:25.4

You've tuned in or are listening to The Glenn Show.

0:28.3

I'm with Robert Wright.

0:30.7

Bob is an old friend.

0:32.6

He is a founder of bloggingheads.tv and MeaningofLife.TV channels. He's a creator of the

0:44.2

Non Zero Foundation. He's the author of many books on human culture and behavior and psychology

0:51.2

and evolutionary psychology and morality and whatnot. He's a wise man.

0:57.5

And introduced me to this medium, frankly, through bloggingheads.tv years ago, an old friend

1:04.2

and someone I admire. Welcome, Bob. Thanks for your time. Thank you for having me. And thank you for

1:10.1

using the platform to such great advantage.

1:14.4

I do like to claim that I turned you into the video and audio star you are.

1:20.2

Okay.

1:21.0

Well, I'm in your debt to that effect.

1:24.3

And I'd also like to learn from you, Bob, because you've been around for a while working in journalism, writing about world affairs, and the world seems to be on fire just right now.

1:36.0

I'm wondering what our prospects are getting out of this thing, you know, alive.

1:42.2

Well, yeah, things, I wouldn't say, have gotten more stable lately.

1:48.1

Conceivably, they could in the Middle East as a result of what happened in Syria, but by

1:52.8

and large, no, my advice would be fast in your seatbelts.

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