Welcome to Season 2 of RealmIQ: Sessions where we talked with Michael Garfield. Artist, musician, AI Enthusiast, Philosopher, connector and fellow podcaster.
Main Topics Discussed
Michael Garfield's Background and Work:
Garfield's experience with the Santa Fe Institute and complex systems science.
His involvement with Google Glass as a beta tester and its impact on his worldview.
Current projects including books, AI non-profit work, and smart glasses.
Impact of AI on Society:
The implications of AI and wearable tech on personal and social interactions.
Historical context of technological evolution and its cyclical nature.
Challenges of information overload and trust in science and technology.
Future of AI and Society:
The role of AI in amplifying human decision-making rather than replacing it.
The potential of new job roles like Chief Philosophical Officer.
The importance of creative and philosophical thinking in navigating AI's future.
Regulation and Imagination:
The need for better regulation across different levels of society.
The role of imagination and creativity in shaping a positive future with AI.
Comparison of AI regulation to the regulation of social media and cryptocurrency.
Educational and Ethical Considerations:
The importance of education and evangelism in responsible AI use.
Upcoming courses on embodied ethics in the age of AI.
The balance between capacity enhancement and thoughtful decision-making.
Quotes from the Speakers
Michael Garfield:
"I just got off five years of doing science communication for the Santa Fe Institute, thinking about the general principles underlying the dynamics of adaptive and evolving systems."
"Wearing a computer on your face changes the way that you think, and it changes the way that you interact with the world around you."
"We are collectively struggling as a species right now to adapt to an enormous spike in the production of new information made available to us through our various successes in science and technology."
"We are going to get more and more comfortable with fundamental uncertainty and find better ways to weave processes that we don't understand like human or machine intuition."
Curt Doty:
"The promise of web three was a DAO, digital autonomous organization, which is really, you can be your own country with your own economy and your own relationships in this new world."
"The real question is, but is all that efficiency driving us? And it's a completely different mindset when you're using the tools not to be efficient, but actually improve learning."
"We have to focus on imagination. Imagine scenarios, imagine worlds, imagine new economies and how you leverage this technology to solve the problems of today and create a new world tomorrow."
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