On the Streets of San Francisco: Transformative A.I.

By Glynn Wilson –

“If handled well,” they say, “this transformation could bring about abundance and prosperity for everyone. If handled poorly, it could result in an extreme concentration of power in the hands of a tiny elite.”

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We have traveled to San Francisco, the world capital of new technology creation and funding, to escape the cataclysmic summer heat from climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation. And on a deep dive into the development and status of Transformative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

To begin, we interview a street musician performing by a Bart-Metro station, concerned with the exponential growth of environmentally damaging data centers all over the country.

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