4 April 2025
Reid Hoffman’s p(bloom)
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and author of the new book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future, offers an optimistic view of the coming AI earthquake.
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In this video:
- Reid’s new book, “Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future”
- Managing technological transitions
- Using AI to build cognitive empathy
- Shaping the coming AI earthquake
- Reid’s notion of “co-opetition” with China
- Geopolitics and AI development
- The US chip war on China
- Heading to Overtime
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