Calum Chace on Surviving AI

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Posted on: February 12, 2016 / Last Modified: April 5, 2022

AI is coming and it could be the best or the worst thing” was Calum Chace‘s message at the end of my first interview with him. Since then Chace has written a non-fiction book on Surviving AI and, given that it is a matter of the survival of our species, I thought it is worthy of a follow-up discussion on the topic.

During our 1 hour conversation with Calum Chace, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as Surviving AI and why it is a companion book to Pandora’s Brain; writing fiction vs non-fiction; the digital divide, technological unemploymentuniversal income, and the economic singularity; the importance of luck and our ignorance of those who have saved the world; the term Singularity, Bostrom’s Superintelligence and Barrat‘s Our Final Invention; the number of AI security experts; the future of capitalism

My favorite quote that I will take away from this interview with Calum Chace is:

This is the century of two singularities and we have to get both of them right!

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Who is Calum Chace?

Calum ChaseCalum 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 a co-author of The Internet Start-Up Bible, a business best-seller published by Random House in 2000. He is a regular speaker on artificial intelligence and related technologies and runs a blog on the subject at www.pandoras-brain.com

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.

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