Amy Webb on Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, and the Big Nine

Amy Webb talks about her book, The Big Nine, with host Russ Roberts. She observes that AI is evolving in a handful of U.S. and Chinese companies. She worries that in the U.S., innovation may lead to social changes we may not ultimately like; in China, innovation may end up serving the geopolitical goals of the Chinese government with some uncomfortable foreign policy implications. Webb's book is a reminder that artificial intelligence does not evolve in a vacuum--research and progress takes place in an institutional context. This is a wide-ranging conversation about the implications and possible futures of a world where artificial intelligence is increasingly part of our lives.