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AI's Surprising Future: What You Need to Know

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In an eye-opening chat, Curtis Northcutt, CEO of Cleanlab, gets real about the future of jobs in an AI-dominated world. Spoiler alert: it's not about robots taking over but rather machines becoming so adept that even top roles like CEOs aren’t safe. Curtis argues that as AI learns and improves at warp speed, humans will struggle to keep up—and eventually, only AI will be able to evaluate other AI.

What do startups need to do to survive? Embrace AI at every level, or risk being left behind. Curtis’s insights on the "self-awareness layer" Cleanlab built into AI systems shed light on how to detect and fix hallucinations before they cause harm.

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