Eurocentricism and the AI video Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt made

The new video was a book in an earlier avataar. This was published in 2021

At 99, Henry Kissinger is old enough to remember Hitler’s Germany. Time may have blunted the sharpness of his recollection of the world inhabited by his 16-year-old self — the taste of fear; the perils of being caught by the Nazis; life in a new land, the United States. But Dr Kissinger could be legitimately said to be very much of the old world.

Except that he’s not. He’s got a starring role in a new animated video on artificial intelligence (AI) along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing.

Dr Kissinger and the others are rendered as cartoons in the video, The Age of AI and Our Human Future, which was a book in an earlier avataar. In the video, the 99-year-old describes how engrossing he found years of workshops on AI. Often, they were organised in his office by Mr Schmidt, along with Mr Huttenlocher.

You can watch the video here. At 16…