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Episode #561: The Internet Was Democratic By Design. AI Was Built to Concentrate Power.
In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Violeta Bulc, former European Commissioner for Transport and coordinator of the book Leadership Challenged, featuring 24 authors from around the world. They explore the dangers of transhumanism, the misuse of artificial intelligence, and how Silicon Valley has lost its authority to lead on technology ethics. Drawing from her background as a computer engineer who worked in Silicon Valley, Bulc argues for creating global AI infrastructure with democratically agreed-upon standards—similar to how the early Internet was built. The conversation covers the manipulation of public consciousness, the importance of...
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there,
and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I've got Violetta Buls here and she recently wrote a book called Leadership Challenged. And was it with 24 authors? Is that right?
Yes. Yes. Basically coordinated as a result of a year of leadership challenge, which was like the whole year of monthly discussions on this topic. And then we invited all speakers to write articles and most of them responded, but we had also some writers by invitation.
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