How the AI age forgets to ask: "What for?" (opens in new tab)

"Novelist Benjamín Labatut joins writer Jasmine Sun for a haunting, funny, and deeply human conversation about AI, superintelligence, and what our abstractions leave out. Drawing on his acclaimed novel The Maniac, Labatut explores the lives behind foundational ideas in computing and AI—from McCulloch and Pitts to John von Neumann and Lee Sedol—and asks what happens when our digital creations collide with continuous, embodied human life. What’s in this video: —Why Labatut uses literary fictio...