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My guest today is Amy Webb, an American futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute. She is professor of strategic foresight at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

The topic is her book The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI–the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself–is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don’t share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.

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• Amy Webb
• @amywebb

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Please enjoy my monologue Eyes Wide Open Brain on Neutral with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

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• Listen to this podcast on iTunes. (Please leave a rating!)
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Food for thought:

• You Played Yourself
• Warren Buffett: ‘I’m having more fun than any 88-year-old in the world’
• Big and Slowing or Small and Growing
• As Peloton Preps For An IPO, A Look Back At Its Funding History
• An anecdote and a statistical analysis walk into a bar
• “One Does Not Eat Forecasts”: On the Difference between Forecasting and Real Life Payoffs
• Meet Matt Calkins: Billionaire, Board Game God And Tech’s Hidden Disruptor
• Uber Eats Rival Born in Dorm Room Creates Dutch Billionaire
• Like the bandwagon-chasing loser I am, I bought a weed stock last week
• Which Tech Company Is Uber Most Like? Its Answer May Surprise You
• Social Pressure or Rational Reactions to Incentives? A Historical Analysis of Reasons for Referee Bias in the Spanish Football
• How Schwab Ate Wall Street
• These are the 8 major forces shaping the future of the global economy
• Hedge Funds Keep Failing to Deliver on What They’re Selling
• How to improve your decision making ability · Michael Mauboussin
• The Anatomy of a Great Decision
• Why Financial Literacy Is So Elusive
• Could These Two Mega Trends Crush Your Retirement Plan?
• You Have To Live It To Believe It

Enjoy.

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My guest today is Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the Chief Talent Scientist at Manpower Group, co-founder of Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling, and Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University.

The topic is his book Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It).

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• The main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence, we are fooled into believing that men are better leaders than women.

Mentions & Resources:

• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
• Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Wikipedia
• @drtcp

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Food for thought:

• ‘Playing Not to Lose.’ Investors Are Sitting Tight as Stocks Near Record Highs.
• With market risk, so goes hedge fund performance
• Quarterly Letter
• Any one momentum/trend look-back period is good, but ensemble modeling is better
• The gap between ‘have to’ and ‘get to’
• Federal Tax Burden has Shifted Away from Corporations
• Do people become happier after 40?
• How to Avoid the Estate Tax And Die Happily Ever After…
• Systems
• Investors Handed an Oilman a ‘Blank Check’ Company. Here’s How It Turned Out.
• Is the Recent Tax Reform Playing a Role in the Decline of Home Sales?
• Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking
• Investors seek ‘minimum income’ of 10.1%
• Fidelity’s Index-Fund Bashing Misses the Mark

Enjoy.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

Subscribe to Trend Following Radio on iTunes

Please enjoy my monologue The Foundation of Good Trading with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

Listen to this episode:

• Listen to this podcast on iTunes. (Please leave a rating!)
• Listen on Spotify.
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Want to learn more Trend Following? Watch my video here.

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Hi Michael,

Firstly, I want to thank you for creating such great content through your books & podcast, much appreciated. A brief introduction, I am an Airline Pilot and started investing a few years back, try and follow Buffett’s approach of Value Investing. Haven’t tried trading before but was intrigued after reading you book about the Turtle Traders. Curious to see if I can implement a robust, backtested, rules based trend following system.

Thank you once again
[Name]

Hope I can help you over time.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.