Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91

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Released

April 24, 2020

Duration

51m

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Lex Fridman Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors:

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Jack Dorsey

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Jack Dorsey, Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #91 explores jack Dorsey on Money, Meaning, Bitcoin, and the Future of AI Jack Dorsey discusses how Square was built around the idea of access—using data science and machine learning to lower barriers for small businesses to participate in the economy. He outlines his belief that the internet needs a native, global currency, explaining why he sees Bitcoin as both a technical breakthrough and an activist, philosophical project. The conversation also explores AI’s promise and risks, from explainability and deepfakes to job displacement and universal basic income. Finally, Dorsey reflects on personal practices like fasting and meditation, and how mortality, meaning, and connection shape his decisions and worldview.

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