Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid threefold crises in the environment, the AI economy, and geopolitics and also proposes a framework for change.

In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, Chi puts forth his opinions on why a world in which billionaires are building doomsday bunkers is one in which no one is really winning, and how that would could be re-imagined.

Featuring: Tom Chi, founding partner, At One Ventures

In today's episode, we'll cover…

White collar jobs and AI
Demand as a check on corporate power
Connections between climate change, AI's impact and political unrest
Chi's proposed skills to address these challenges: critical thinking, creativity, compassion, and community.

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