Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock
Feb 11, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 669
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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.
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