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What happens when some of the world's leading AI experts start debating whether we should unplug artificial intelligence before it becomes too powerful to control?
After watching Steven Bartlett's AI extinction debate, I couldn't stop thinking about Robert Oppenheimer, the race toward artificial general intelligence, and why I started Technically Sweet back in 2014.
I'm Julia Peter, a former Sony, Google, and Meta AI product designer, founder of LocalAway, and host of Technically Sweet.
In this episode, I'm sharing what I learned working inside Big Tech, including the rather extraordinary experience of watching seven managers come and go at Facebook AI Research, and why I eventually decided to build my own venture-backed company.
We also get into the OpenAI founder story, Elon Musk's comparison between artificial intelligence and how humans treat less intelligent animals, the future of corporate careers, and why I believe AI could help us discover extraordinary things about human intelligence and consciousness.
And I'll share why I moved to the mountains of Switzerland, what I've been rediscovering outside of work, and how I'm using AI to make more room for the things that actually matter to me.
Because I don't think the most interesting question about AI is simply how much more productive it can make us.
I'm much more interested in what we might do with the time, freedom, and possibilities it creates.
Try the Life Design Audit
Open your preferred AI assistant and ask:
"Act as my personal life-design partner. Help me examine how I spend my time, what I value, and which interests I've stopped making room for. Ask me questions one at a time, then help me identify three ways AI could simplify my responsibilities and one realistic change I could make this week to create more time for something I genuinely enjoy. Don't make decisions for me. Help me develop a practical plan that reflects my own values."
Watch the video version on YouTube: Technically Sweet Studio.
Original interview: https://youtu.be/OhOmLqR5nN4
Technically Sweet explores AI, technology, consciousness, creativity, and what it means to design a life you love.
Hosted by Julia Peter, from the mountains of Switzerland.
