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“I think it’s important to give you a sense of the quickness that this is happening,” former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt, explained to Citadel colleagues about the societal changes coming as a result of generative artificial intelligence. “Maybe even this group may not appreciate how fast this is going to happen in the next five years.”

In a wide-ranging Citadel Connect Conversation, Schmidt spoke about the fast-approaching opportunities and risks that AI poses, all detailed in his new book, “Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit.”

Schmidt co-authored the book with the late diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate Henry Kissinger and Microsoft’s former Chief Technology Officer Craig Mundie and said that Kissinger likened the current challenges of AI to those facing the world in the early years of the Cold War.

“He was very concerned that this thing is happening so quickly that there will be no time to do the diplomacy … The timing of this extraordinary invention is that our political systems are just not ready for this rate of change.”