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Michael Muthukrishna

Michael Muthukrishna

Professor

Oct 1, 2026

18:05
So on that line, let's segue to the AI revolution and how do you see that as like the current chapter in this major evolution transition story?
18:19
Yeah, so AI is, as many people have noted, is a general purpose technology.
18:24
In that sense, it's like electricity or computers or the internet.
18:27
It's not a particular technology.
18:29
It's something that permeates all of life, all of our social world.
18:33
But it is also a very different kind of technology.
18:36
In the book, I refer to it as a fourth line of inheritance.

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32:45
We need models that predict social digital twins, so on and so forth, right?
12:43
There's blockchain in there as well, which was also good to see.
12:48
Yeah, you might remember my tragic story around that as well.
12:52
So what I'm interested in more broadly than just AI are the challenges that humanity faces across the coming century.
12:59
One of which is now AI.
13:02
I don't think I would have said that, let's say, 10 years ago.
13:04
And to kind of tackle that problem, the problem is it's a little bit like the learnings across AI.
13:10
Everybody's got a piece of the puzzle.

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31:47
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