Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real

Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund's AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he published an op-ed in the New York Times that proposed a “token tax,” to help mitigate the job losses that AI might cause. In today's conversation, Jensen tells us how Bridgewater is currently using AI, why there needs to be a stronger AI regulatory state, and why it feels like the AI discourse is starting to resemble the months before Covid-19 took over the world in 2020. (Source: Bloomberg)

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