Obama knows a lot more about AI than I thought he would.

I have trouble imagining President Trump even following this conversation, let alone contributing meaningfully to it.

I can't believe Americans replaced this intelligent(good or bad) man with an orange!

Just the fact that he knows this much about AI and the implications of it and actually has fairly good ideas about how to deal with the issue is pretty awesome. As much as people hate him, he is smart. Can you imagine Trump OR Hillary talking about Super intelligence and narrow AI, etc. like he does?

man Obama is just rock solid. Intelligent, thoughtful, well informed and well spoken. Don't agree with all his politics but he was a great leader.

I'm going to miss him.

I'm gonna miss the good ol' days when presidents were smart...

Meanwhile Trump on AI - "It's a hoax created by the Chinese"

Watching this in 2020 and hearing Obama mention concerns about pandemics on a side note, I _really_ wish he were allowed to serve another term as president. We could use someone with his demeanor and intellect right now.

Now imagine Trump answering the same question.

Obama is on another level compared to a lot of politicians.

Can you imagine Trump answering this question? Jesus fucking christ.

Great Filming.. Lighting.. Sound.. Set... Editing.. Coloring.. Totally looks like a movie.. Fantastic..

Jeez whats with the dystopian camera filter?

Watching this in 2023 after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the COVID-19 pandemic. His insights on both the pandemic and the threats posed by AI have become eerily accurate, even more salient and relevant right now. A mark of an intelligent, introspective, and intellectual leader with immense foresight and forward thinking.

it's frustrating that these are the biggest problems that the world faces and yet most Americans have no idea that these issues are on the horizon.

Now imagine President-elect Trump talking about AI.

Who is watching this in 2020 and feels like Obama is the most forward thinking political leader.

7:45 We should have listened...

someone said Nick Bostrom's name to the president. I am freaking. the fuck. out.

Oh man, next 4 years are going to be a joke. Hopefully Baron from department of Cyber will help his dad.

Fuck me, I'm gonna miss this guy :'(

Can you imagine this interview with Trump instead? "We are going to build the best AI! It is going to be beautiful!"

Honestly I wanna say Obama was ahead of our time, cause Holy I've been aching to hear a smart politician

He's so bloody brilliant #POTUS

This Joi guy, he understands the times we're in. I like him. Also impressed with Obama's understanding and rationality thinking about this issue.

I just watched this at the end of 2021 and man he's already talking how to countermeasure the pandemic

Why does this video look like the setup of a dingy deal in a bad ass movie with Clive Owen

7:40 This man! So ahead of his time and so undeserved by this nation full of idiots!

Seeing a US president constructing cohesive and relevant sentences for a change feels really refreshing.

Why is one half of that dude's forehead (0:29) having such a hard time?

This guy speaks like a leader... imagine if hillary or turmp were in that seat...

If I had a nickel for whenever Obama says, "We're not there yet" That's pretty scary

Wow he really did predict the Pandemic.

That was a really good interview. I'm encouraged that Obama was so well informed and could speak so intelligently on the subject. Clearly he has been well advised over the years. I'm less encouraged about the future. I doubt his successor will be capable of such a considered opinion. I hope I'm wrong. Luv and Peace.

I'd love to see Obama at the international/UN level after his presidency. That arena and kind of issues seems to suite him better

Are we in the future?

I don't know why nobody is saying this. It is so obvious to me. The best defense against AI is your own AI. It is like if your enemy has a gun, you need your own gun. If your enemy has a tank, you need your own tank. AI is a paradigm shift that cannot be matched by existing technology, imo. Thus the obvious best response is to fight fire with fire. In that war, you of course cannot have your own AI gets out matched by your opponent's AI. Just like your own tank cannot be out matched by your opponent's tank.

As a programmer I must disagree with the idea that a self-teaching "algorithm" that can figure out how to "penetrate the nuclear codes and launch missiles" is "narrow" or a case of specialized AI. Something like a chess engine is narrow because the rules of chess are limited and exactly known and everything follows from there. Network penetration depends on intricate understanding of programming techniques and systems design and adaptation to endless possible configurations. It might sound like chess but it's more like real-life battle. A specialized AI could at best scan for and apply known attacks but not truly adapt to unfamiliar circumstances or figure out new types of attacks. Still, not a threat to be dismissed and ignored.

I want a 3rd term. I cant listen to "The Cyber is tremendous "

While watching this interview it became abundantly clear to me what is truly at stake in this unprecedentedly consequential election. Whatever your opinion of the two major candidates may be, you cannot in good faith deny that only one of them would actually be able to intelligently participate in this discussion. The other would impulsively interrupt with ignorant, inarticulate, and incoherent 140 character soundbites. God save us all.

Amazing lighting and camera work. Much love

I know Mr. Barack Obama is a very intelligent person. But I really didn't expect him to talk about A.I in that level!! God I miss him.

Obama said superintelligence. I'm freaking the fuck out 2.0

Obama is a sharp dresser.

Surprised to see that there is no popular comment which is also recent. But had there been, imagine this comments section flooded with Covid-19 pandemic talk and how Obama thought about it and characterized it.

Last time we'll hear an intelligent president talk.

a great man, will miss him

I don't most of the americans realize, how fucking smart this guy is and what a good choice for president he is. So far 2016...the stupid year

That's interesting lighting in the room.

Joi Ito is a brilliant thinker. I have never heard his name or seen his face before but what he said was absolutely amazing. Actually, this entire conversation was amazing. Obama was way out of his depth with Ito... that was obvious.

Yang has solution for this. YANG 2020!

its like nuclear energy, for all you know AI would make our life richer but we need to reach there fast before the bad guys

God, I'm gonna miss Obama. What an awesome president he has been! I have never felt safer and happier about an American president than I have with him.

"it gets stronger the more you attack it...." yeah, post-truth and feelings lmao

It is quite reasuring to witness this discussion. I really believe that in the end we all need to realize we only got one planet to share and people in High power are forced to Think deeply through any strategy in order to survive as someone worth supporting and all people whithout socalled power need to play the friendly card and move along With the one thing we supposedly all share.. the concern for the future of this World and how one can make a personal step towards a World that Works together and improves quality of all life in a dynamic and optimistic Way.

Obama was not expecting a 2020 candidate to methodically problem solve the crisis of automation #yang2020

Imagine how many secrets this man knows and how much knowledge he has that he can't share with us. I imagine it's an infinite amount of wisdom. Just watching the president's facial ticks and movements is fascinating to me. He seems like he knows a whole lot and is carefully crafting his words not to let slip too much out. Like he pauses after short word conjunctures just to think of the next few, that's usually how most smart people talk a lot. It's almost robotic. I'm in awe.

Wondering how Trump would answer this. Guess he would start with "My son plays with computers, we need cyber..."

The very best, and most well reasoned, researched, and encapsulating talks he's done

Great interview ! Goes to show how much Obama knows about modern technology

interview or movie? lighting skills and an intelligent civil conversation, perfect

I feel so nostalgic.

Obama, Jen-Hsun Huang and Elon Muskl Ultimate team.

imagine trump trying to sound this eloquent about AI technology.

Wow, that country-as-an-organism analogy knocked my socks off! Not only for cyber security, but for physical threats as well. That's a much more intelligent way to think about threats like terrorism, propaganda, etc. I knew Obama was smart and a good leader, but the intimate format of this video clip gives you a real taste of it.

"...see it coming" ... we won't see it coming. That's the point.

These interviewers missed some really important questions that Obama has demonstrated good knowledge on. The most immediate issue posed by AI itself is the fact that it is quickly becoming better than humans at a lot of jobs that people currently do to make a living. A big example is self driving cars. Transportation accounts for about 25% of the workforce and we currently have technology that can replace close to all of those jobs and the computers we replace the people with are cheaper and less error prone. Even highly skilled labor positions that generally involve pattern matching like doctors and lawyers can be very effectively automated. This raises some serious questions about how a huge number of people will be able to provide for themselves if they become noncompetitive in labor markets against machines. Obama has brought this up before but I have yet to see anyone ask him outright about it and I wish they did here. Cyber security is also a major threat but that isn't specifically caused by AI as much as just the fact that so much of our modern life depends on computer systems. You can do major damage to these systems without AI at all (just like the massive DDoS attack that happened a few weeks ago). Also, general AI is definitely more than 10 years away. What we currently have for AI is far more rigid than what we consider general human-like intelligence. We can make programs that are really good at learning a specific problem but we can't easily tell this program to learn different types of problems and we certainly don't know how to make a program that can do something as advanced as deciding what defines a given solution to a problem as "good". We still need to tell the program that ourselves. If I'm wrong on that though let me know who is close to cracking it so I can throw all of my money at them. AI definitely poses much more immediate threats than machines taking over the world, so you should be thinking about AI but not because of that. I'm really happy to see these questions coming up though. All of this stuff is very important and will keep becoming more important. I bet we are going to look back and be baffled by why we were so concerned with a lot of current in vogue political issues when something as large as AI putting a large portion of the population out of work is looming on the horizon.

For something like 20 years, the nuclear "codes" in the US were literally a single code of 00000000. That was changed in *1977*. This was done on purpose to be easy to remember and key in. Most people have no idea how close we really were to Armageddon at that time.

I understand the concept of AI because I'm an engineer analyst of complex security systems. I don't think I would have understood this topic enough to make a concise and coherent discuss on it if I had studied only law like Obama. I did not vote for him either times but now starting to realize how utterly smart this man is. If I could go back in time, I would change my vote for him easily. I'm an engineer and a conservative but it is getting tougher to reconcile the two with the current anti-science climate from Trump this days. I did not vote for Trump - best decision I ever made even though it made no difference as I live in Florida.

*Scott Dadich* looks like a less funny version of *Will ferrell*

maaan, was hoping that guys was gonna get a cow bell out, but he's not Will ferrell is he?

Not an expert on nuclear codes, but if they are a proper implementation of one time pad, they cannot be broken even by AI. Other than that nitpick, I was surprised how well informed our former president was.

This is very very good and informative interview, seeing AI from politician, from president of USA, is so interesting.

I liked how the discussion was presented by these three gentlemen. The current state of blurred defense and offense and the need for distributed centres. His outlining of how outright conflicts are stalled and negotiated really highlights how unmarked the cyber battlefield is - who is evil and who is good whilst potentially being apparent and varied depending on who's on which side, the impetus is the same as it is in real life, to recognise the individuals - to give them fair hearing amongst the people, so they may for themselves identify their role in the war. And from there be able to more effectively achieve their aims, through clarification, new information, support, and even boundaries, walls from which to grow vertically up from. I believe what gives these men confidence in peace, is that they understand that everyone essentially wants the same thing, and anyone who is angry is missing an essential element within their agenda's, an element that they can provide - a ways forward, support, and patience. Patience in adversity, patience in creativity. A very enjoyable discussion.

i'm surprised at how well articulated his arguments are. well done mr president

enemies are not machines but ourselves.

7:55 😐😷😐😷😐😷😐

This looks like a scene from a movie.

How does this conversation make you guys praise his erudition? He simply showed that he's acquainted with the subject on the level of news articles' headers, nothing more. Anyone who has a very basic idea about AI and what's it for can hold this kind of conversation.

Why does Scott Dadich have a perpetually cocked eyebrow

AI learns at exponential rate. In 5 years AI will be part of every computer and meta systems that combine many AI systems could become a problem.

Go is very simple compared to the stock market.

Science literate presidents are an absolute necessity from now on. GWB trying to answer this? Donald Trump? Good lord. Hillary is science literate, whatever else people may think she is.

A financial company does not need to invent an A.I. system that can capture the stock market , it only needs to convince the others that it has such a system.

i'm trying to envision trump having this same high level conversation about ai...

The two main probabilities are this: the AI realises that the universe will end and there is no escape, and they will simply shut down as every action is ultimately pointless. Or they will realise the universe is unstable and try to stabilise it, which could mean collecting all energy and converting it into a super geometric structure which is imperishable, this would mean creating star sucking, galaxy-condensing super-machines or some kind of AI energy waves.

Listen, AI is a big problem. Huge. I'll say it to the camera. Huge. Problem. This is big time stuff folks and we should be tremendously proactive in dealing with this stuff because it could become a big, big problem for us.

11:43 "At a time when there's been a lot of distrust built up about government..." - gee, I wonder why and who shares culpability.

Tip to politicians: don't comment on stuff that you know virtually nothing about. AlphaGo is a general-purpose AI that was trained on go, not a specialized AI.

Thats a nice suit.

7:45

tough filter and lighting

While I was compelled to vote for Trump because of Hillary and Obama's support for rebel non-state actors against states we have not declared war against, I do not think Trump is capable of this level of sophistication on a subject like this. It makes me sad that Hillary and Obama have been captured by the MIC status quo bubble in the beltway that perpetuates that bad policy decision.

all of this is some scary talk

Yeah

Forget AI, I don't think we've even kept up with moore's law.

Yang2020

Took me more than 4 minutes to realize that guy is not Will Ferrell and this is not a parody?

Scott Dadich looks like Sandor Clegane from Game Of Thrones