My guest this week is Brian Christian, the author of two of my favorite recent books: Algorithms to Live By and The Most Human Human. Our conversation covers the present and future of how humans interact with and use computers. Brian’s thoughts on the nature of intelligence and what it means to be human continue to make me think about what works, and life, will be like in the future. I hope you enjoy our conversation.For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub.Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshagShow Notes1:11 - (First Question) – Summarizing his collection of interests that led to his three books2:59 – Biggest questions in AI3:43 – Defining AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its history5:18 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence7:54 – The idea of the most human human9:59 – Tactics that have changed the most in learning to be the most human human16:10 –Tests for measuring AGI and updates made to them20:12 – Concerns for once we have AGI26:06 – Self-awareness as a threshold for AGI31:58 – Skeptics’ take on AGI37:14 – Advice for people building careers and how AGI will impact work38:16 – Explore/Exploit trade-off44:57 – How to explore/exploit applies to business concepts49:16 – Impacts of AGI on the economy52:40 – Highlights from his second book57:39 – Kindest thing anyone has done for BrianLearn MoreFor more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclubFollow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag