Calum Chace on Pandora’s Brain: AI is Coming and It Could Be the Best or the Worst Thing
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Posted on: March 27, 2015 / Last Modified: April 22, 2022
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Pandora’s Brain is one of the most philosophical science fiction novels I have read recently. And since Calum Chace has been a valuable contributor to Singularity Weblog and a great blogger with an interesting and diverse experience in his own right, I thought that he would make a great guest for my podcast. And so I invited him for an interview which turned out to be a very enjoyable conversation indeed.
During our 70 min discussion with Calum Chace we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: his intellectual background, business experience, and foray into writing science fiction; why science fiction is philosophy in fancy dress; how his mind exploded after reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines
My favorite quote that I will take away from this interview is:
AI is coming and it could be the best or the worst thing that has ever happened to us. It can’t be stopped. So we have to try to influence it to be the best thing…
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Who is Calum Chace?
Calum Chace retired in 2012 to focus on writing after a 30-year career in business, in which he was a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He maintains his interest in business by serving as chairman and coach for growing companies.
Calum is co-author of The Internet Start-Up Bible
Calum Chace lives in London and Sussex (England) with his partner, a director of a design school, and their daughter. He studied philosophy at Oxford University, where he discovered that the science fiction he had been reading since early boyhood is actually philosophy in fancy dress.
