Episode · a16z Podcast · 2025-07-28

Books mentioned on Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

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a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Martin Casado sit down with technologist and investor Balaji Srinivasan to explore how the metaphors we use to describe AI—whether as god, swarm, tool, or oracle—reveal as much about us as they do about the technology itself.

Martin Casado discussed Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Superintelligence

   Nick Bostrom · at 9:49

   Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is a foundational book exploring the future of artificial intelligence and the existential risks posed by the creation of superintelligent systems.

   Discussed

   “when Nick Bowm wrote super intelligence was what 2014 and you know listen he was talking about this platonic ideal of AI and this platonic ideal of AI just happened to be able to recursively self-improve and just happened to like have these kind of like super physical things that like no AI today has.”

   Martin Casado Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money 2025-07-28 Listen at 9:49

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