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Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Feb 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Historian Jessica Riskin of Stanford University talks about her book The Restless Clock with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What is the difference between human beings and machines? How has science thought about this distinction? When do we have agency and when are we constrained? Riskin discusses these issues and the implications for how we think about ourselves and the growth of artificial intelligence.
Released:
Feb 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Economics of Sports: The economic impact of sports stadiums and socialism in sports, by Russ Roberts and Skip Sauer by EconTalk