Jeremie Harris's work on A.I. could dramatically alter your perspective on the field of data science and the bewildering — perhaps downright frightening — impact you and A.I. could make together on the world.

Jeremie:
• Recently co-founded Mercurius, an A.I. safety company.
• Has briefed senior political and policy leaders around the world on long-term risks from A.I., including senior members of the U.K. Cabinet Office, the Canadian Cabinet, as well as the U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security and Defense.
• Is Host of the excellent Towards Data Science podcast.
• He previously co-founded SharpestMinds, a Y Combinator-backed mentorship marketplace for data scientists.
• He proudly dropped out of his quantum mechanics PhD to found SharpestMinds.
• He hold a Master’s in biological physics from the University of Toronto.

In this episode, Jeremie details:
• What Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is
• How the development of AGI could happen in our lifetime and could present an existential risk to humans, perhaps even to all life on the planet as we know it.
• How, alternatively, if engineered properly, AGI could herald a moment called the singularity that brings with it a level of prosperity that is not even imaginable today.
• What it takes to become an AI safety expert yourself in order to help align AGI with benevolent human goals
• His forthcoming book on quantum mechanics
• Why almost nobody should do a PhD

Today’s episode is deep and intense, but as usual it does still have a lot of laughs, and it should appeal broadly, no matter whether you’re a technical data science expert already or not.

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