How To Handle AI Anxiety: A Computer Scientist and a Buddhist Teacher On Managing Uncertainty | Cal Newport & Matthew Brensilver
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How To Handle AI Anxiety: A Computer Scientist and a Buddhist Teacher On Managing Uncertainty | Cal Newport & Matthew Brensilver

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 26, 20261 hr 10 min
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Will AI take our jobs? Kill us? This episode provides both fact-checking and a psychological survival guide. Cal Newport is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, where he is also a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Ethics and the inaugural Director of the Computer Science, Ethics and Society academic program. He is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including, most recently, Slow Productivity, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Newport is also a long-time contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep...

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Hello, my fellow suffering beings. Welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. I don't know about you, but I am pretty damn anxious about artificial intelligence.

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I have all the regular concerns. Will it take our jobs? Will it kill us? But beyond that, I have a kind of generalized dread because I have the sense that the

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world is about to change in profound and unpredictable ways and that just kind of freaks me out. So I've been wanting to do this episode for a long time about how to manage AI anxiety and I have recruited two ninjas. My first guest is Cal Newport who's been on the show before.

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