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0:00 Reid's new book, “Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future”
8:32 Managing technological transitions
16:09 Using AI to build cognitive empathy
20:01 Shaping the coming AI earthquake
28:38 Reid's notion of "co-opetition" with China
39:42 Geopolitics and AI development
44:27 The US chip war on China
50:01 Heading into Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners, Inflection AI, Impromptu, Superagency). Recorded March 26, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 What Reid will miss after AI (Or, the death of the blank page)
3:58 On sci-fi doomers
9:37 Human-AI relationships
12:54 Sentience in non-human intelligences
15:55 The Metaverse we're already in
29:16 What's next for Reid?
