Eric Schmidt, billionaire and former Google CEO, at the ai-Pulse conference at Station F technology campus in Paris, France, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, is thinking about artificial intelligence – how it interacts with humans, and how it may reshape democracy. Or replace it.
Schmidt coauthored Genesis, with former Microsoft executive Craig Mundie and the late Henry Kissinger, who died in 2023 about a year before the book’s publication.
Kissinger, Schmidt says, had been thinking about the nature of reality “since before we were