Can you guarantee me that killer robots will never be built?

The only existential risk for human beings is not killer robots.

There's pandemics, there's asteroids, there's nuclear weapons, there's climate change,

and the list kind of goes on.

And so you have to look at existential risk as a portfolio, namely, it's not just one thing,

it's a set of things.

And so when you look at any particular intervention, you say, well, how does this affect the portfolio?

My very vigorous and strong contention is that AI, even unmodified at all, is net, I think, very positive on the existential risk portfolio.

Welcome to bankless, where today we explore the frontier of AI.

This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless. The question for today, will AI give us super agency or will it be used to enslave us?

We have Reid Hoffman on the podcast today. He gives his bullcase for AI, why it's good, why we should

accelerate AI into the future, and how it will turn each of us into super agents. And to him,

that equals more freedom for everyone. I think the bankless journey is all

about becoming a more sovereign individual. That's what David and I have talked about since

inception. And it's increasingly hard to imagine being a sovereign individual without crypto,

which we've talked a lot about, but also without AI. Like, crypto gives you the ability to own things, but AI seems to be

the ability to control your own destiny. And that's why we're doing an AI episode today with

Reid Hoffman to help stay ahead of the AI curve. A few things we discuss. Super agency,

Dumers, bloomers and Zoomers, what could go right, how to use AI, American superintelligence,

and finally, we end with the question to read, what if this whole AI thing is overhyped?

Stay tuned for that answer.

Super agency is the title of Reed Hoffman's book, which is coming out this week, if you are listening to it at the time of

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