Dex Hunter-Torricke
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Dex Hunter-Torricke has spent close to two decades positioned where technology meets institutional power. He began in the office of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, then became Google's first executive speechwriter, drafting for Eric Schmidt and Larry Page.
“Zero friends. And that number, by the way, is pretty much comparable in the United States. So it's a tremendous number of people. I mean, I looked at this polling all the time in companies as well, you know, companies I worked for.”
“But this is something now where there's a world coming where we might not just be struggling to survive. And I think that's what work is and life is like for the majority of the world's people, including the majority of people, even in the advanced economies. Over 50% of the UK population lives paycheck to paycheck.”
“Yeah, everything is excused. It's not part of real life. And it was something where you could literally get people to pay money for tickets, unfortunately, to go and watch a cheesy rom-com set at Google's campus about a couple of people who become interns there. Now, could you imagine trying to make that and get people to watch it?”
“There is a duality, and this is why I think it's not creative enough, ironically, to have this knee-jerk reaction that AI just automatically is likely to have a atrophying effect on creativity or is something we should be resisting. Yes, there are things which are clearly awful.”
OTA Media interview (Bowman and Code, with Sir Charles Bowman) cross-referenced with public record.
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