142. WIRED Editor Nick Thompson on Free Speech, Fake News, Regulating Big Tech and Coming Cold War with China
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Nick Thompson (@nxthompson) is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, the 5th since its founding. Under his leadership, WIRED has broken massive stories about Facebook, cyber-warfare, the Robert Mueller investigation, and numerous...
show moreIn today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of media and state of fake news
- A deeper dive into the issues of social media and how to address them
- Why Nick’s optimistic Facebook can become a force for good
- An insider’s perspective on the Huawei debate and China trade war
- Possible ways to redesign democracy
- Nick’s thoughts on AI and its potential to upend existing power structures
- Why Nick is very concerned with prospect of nuclear war
- How Nick thinks about privacy, convenience and future of internet
- Why there’s no impeachment coming from Mueller’s investigation
- An in-depth examination of existential risk
- What the government should do about big tech
- The reason Nick’s not worried about AGI
- How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
- Why climate change is still the biggest problem to tackle
- Can we save journalism
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