[zackham]

I heard Schmidt on a couple podcasts[1][2] recently promoting this book, and I found them to be useful for understanding how AI is being discussed among the political and leadership class. I was surprised to see all the negativity here - I thought he made some interesting points, and I appreciated getting some insight into how decision-makers are thinking about this in terms of regulation and geopolitical risks.

[1] https://tim.blog/2021/10/25/eric-schmidt-ai/

[2] https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/eric-schmidt-ai-human-futur...

[jeffrallen]

Maybe the negativity is due to the fact that Eric chose an unindicted war criminal as his co-author?

[zackham]

I understand the points being made, it's just not what I choose to focus on in the very limited time I'm going to spend engaging with this material. The purpose of my comment was to let any other tech-focused visitors to this site know that I did find some value on the periphery of this book, in case they are equally uninterested in hearing everyone's hot takes on a 98 year old who's already had books written about his life's negative impacts.

[kranke155]

You could say that about a lot of US officials. This obsession with Kissinger is amazing. Do we plan to indict Gorbachev for the Afghanistan invasion ?

[tata71]

Schmidt is painted as the same by Assange in "Google is Not What It Seems", no?

[mensetmanusman]

This seems like an opinion.

[xhkkffbf]

Huttenlocher is guilty of waging many faculty battles but I didn't realize they were indictable. Well, I guess that makes him unindicted.

[nefitty]

I refuse to read any books written by people that eat meat. Killing living things is a crime, and supporting the industries involved in that is immoral.

[tuatoru]

Any written summaries/reviews? Ain't nobody got time to listen to podcasts.

Edit: Transcript link in the first reference you gave.

>Eric Schmidt: About 12 years ago, I met him [Kissinger] at a conference called Bilderberg.

The Bilderberg Group[1] is the closest thing to a "secret cabal running the world" that we actually have. Not very secret, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting

[tata71]

Try and attend.

[MichaelMoser123]

does that all mean that Eric Schmidt is running for office, or is he trying to get into a position of political influence with the Biden administration? (i mean, is it possible that he is using his book as a platform in this effort?)

[AnimalMuppet]

If he's co-writing with Kissinger, I doubt he's doing it as an effort to suck up to the Biden administration.