AI is evolving from deep learning to reinforcement learning to planning while learning, mimicking human strategic thinking.This shift makes AI capable of adapting in real-time, not just reacting from past data.

Planning Is the Future of AI Learning

Technological adaptation is now a daily habit, not a quarterly strategy.Fall behind in AI for a month, and you could fall behind for good.

AI Is a Marathon—Not a Sprint

AlphaGo shocked the Go community by making a move no human had seen in 2,500 years of gameplay—an entirely new paradigm of play.It proved AI can create, not just optimize, disrupting long-held beliefs about human-exclusive innovation.

AlphaGo Rewrote 2,500 Years of Strategy in One Move

The main bottleneck for AI is electricity, not data or smarter algorithms.Scaling future AI models could require 1000x more compute power, demanding massive energy investments.

Energy Is AI’s Greatest Limitation

Future AI could handle full business operations—from planning to execution—with minimal human oversight.This would redefine what productivity, management, and labor even mean.

AI Agents Could Autonomously Run Entire Businesses

With zero-knowledge proofs, you can prove who you are without revealing who you are.This could be foundational for trust in human-AI systems.

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Can Preserve AI-Driven Privacy

Open-source models democratize AI, but also make biosecurity and cyber threats more likely.Once released, dangerous tools can never be contained again.

Open-Source AI is a Double-Edged Sword

AI development is driven by geopolitical urgency—pausing isn't feasible in a competitive global market.Like nuclear tech, missteps could be catastrophic if we don’t build guardrails.

The AI Race Mirrors the Nuclear Arms Race

Under certain models, AI could increase productivity annually by 30%, disrupting entire economic systems.This could solve demographic issues like declining birthrates and labor shortages.

AI Could Boost Productivity by 30% a Year

AI could offer individualized education in every child’s native language, regardless of geography or income.This levels the global playing field in a way traditional systems never could.

Every Child Could Have a Personalized AI Tutor

Eric Schmidt discusses the underestimated transformative potential of AI, its implications for humanity, and the geopolitical, ethical, and technological challenges ahead.

The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. In a wide-ranging interview with technologist Bilawal Sidhu, Schmidt makes the case that AI is wildly underhyped, as near-constant breakthroughs give rise to systems capable of doing even the most complex tasks on their own. He explores the staggering opportunities, sobering challenges and urgent risks of AI, showing why everyone will need to engage with this technology in order to remain relevant. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 11, 2025)

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