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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Why AI Won’t Destroy Us with Microsoft’s Brad Smith [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Spotify Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Trevor puts on a suit (no, he’s not returning to The Daily Show) and heads to Microsoft. This week Brad Smith, Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft talks AI, explains why he doesn’t believe it will be the end of humankind, and what we all have to do to keep it that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If we think about that scaling continuously and growing and growing, you can get to a place where even if you're optimistic,

0:07.0

AI is fundamentally doing everything for us.

0:11.0

Thinking of it in the short term and thinking of it in the long term. How do you see it philosophically beyond just a product?

0:17.6

Philosophically, I have always wanted it to be a part of something that advances technology and uses it to make people better.

0:29.1

Now a hundred years, five hundred years from now people may look back and say wow this guy you know Brad Smith he was like a real

0:35.9

backwards thinker he didn't he didn't have the vision to see that we were creating a new

0:40.6

species that would replace humanity.

0:43.6

I don't want to replace humanity.

0:45.4

This is what now?

0:51.4

Now with Trevenoa.

0:55.0

Brad Smith.

1:00.0

Brad Smith.

1:03.0

Welcome to the podcast.

1:04.0

It's great as always to be with you, Trevor.

1:06.4

This is really a fascinating and fun experience for me because I didn't plan it,

1:11.6

which like most of my favorite things in life is how I like things to be

1:15.1

I planned being here with you you know at the CEO summit here in Microsoft in Seattle that's why I'm wearing a suit

1:26.2

This is not my usual attire. But when I knew I was going to be spending the week here, I thought to myself, man, if there's

1:29.9

one person I'd love to have on the podcast. It's somebody I'll often have the most fascinating conversations with,

1:36.5

and that's Brad Smith.

1:38.0

Not just the Vice-Chair and President of Microsoft,

1:41.6

but a thinker.

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