Intelligence Isn’t Power

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.Pulsing through the episodes we’ve been doing, the debate the country has been having about artificial intelligence is a pretty simple but hard question: What sort of technology is artificial intelligence?Is it a technology that works somewhat the way past ones have worked? Is it comparable to electricity, the internet, the bicycle — something like that?Or is it something new? Is the addition of intelligence and volition to these systems the creation of something more like an alien mind, such...