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04.10.2026
#570
What will be the next chapter in human history ?
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Eric Schmidt
Retrouvez l’épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/eric-schmidt-google-vf/
Artificial intelligence, wars, geopolitics: in just a few years, everything has started shifting at once.
Everything is changing fast (too fast), and I can’t tell my kids what kind of world they’re going to grow up in.
No one can predict the future. But some people have a big-picture view that allows them, without playing fortune-teller, to map out plausible scenarios of what lies ahead. Eric Schmidt is one of them.
Over the past 25 years:
- He ran Google from 2001 to 2011, taking it from $86 million to $37 billion in revenue, an increase of more than 44,000%.
- During that time, he sat on Apple’s board alongside Steve Jobs.
- He was Henry Kissinger’s closest friend, and co-wrote two books with him.
- He co-wrote the military AI policy adopted by the US government.
- He advises Ukraine and travels there several times a year, under fire.
Today, at 71, he runs Relativity Space, a rocket manufacturer.
For an hour and a half, he gave us everything: advice on becoming a better CEO, strong takes on what AI is really going to change in our lives, insights into what tomorrow’s wars will look like, and his action plan for Europe and France to close their massive gap with the US and China.
This is the first time Eric has given a long-form interview to a French media outlet.
He had never done so before, not even when he was CEO of Google.
I’m so proud to share this episode with you.
Enjoy the listen.
You can follow Eric on LinkedIn.
We referred to previous GDIY episodes:
- #543 – Yann Le Cun – AMI Labs – Rendre l’IA plus humaine
- #507 – Laurent Alexandre – Auteur – Vers la fin des études supérieures ?
- #500 – VO – Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn, Paypal – How to master humanity’s most powerful invention
- #500 – VF – Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn, Paypal – Comment dompter l’invention la plus puissante de l’humanité
- #473 – VO – Brian Chesky – Airbnb – We’re just getting started
- #473 – VF – Brian Chesky – Airbnb – Après 17 ans, nous ne sommes qu’au début de notre histoire
- #460 – Sébastien Bazin – PDG du groupe Accor – Diriger un groupe coté en bourse sans ordinateur
- #452 – VO – Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn, Paypal – We are more Homo technicus than Homo sapiens
- #452 – VF – Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn, Paypal – L’humanité 2.0 : Homo technicus plus qu’Homo sapiens
- #437 – VO – James Dyson – Dyson – Failure is more exciting than success
- #437 – VF – James Dyson – Dyson – Les échecs m’intéressent plus que les succès
- #401 – Emmanuel Macron – Président de la République – Les décisions les plus lourdes se prennent seul
- #397 – Yann Le Cun – Chief AI Scientist chez Meta – L’Intelligence Artificielle Générale ne viendra pas de Chat GPT
- #327 – Laurent Alexandre – Auteur – ChatGPT & IA : « Dans 6 mois, il sera trop tard pour s’y intéresser »
- #165 – Laurent Alexandre – Doctissimo – La nécessité d’affirmer ses idées
We spoke about:
- Alta Ares
- Drones Shahed (Iran/Russie)
- Skyfall (fabricant ukrainien de drones intercepteurs)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Odoo (ERP)
- ElevenLabs
- NanoCorp
- Claude Tag (Anthropic)
- Mistral AI
- Kaito
- Bill Campbell (Trillion Dollar Coach)
- Conférence d’Asilomar (1975, ADN recombinant)
- Incident OpenAI / Hugging Face (agents autonomes)
- Jacob Coxon (chercheur OpenAI/Anthropic)
Reading Recommendations:
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, de Dava Sobel 🇬🇧
- Longitude : L’histoire vraie du génie solitaire qui résolut le plus grand problème scientifique de son temps, de Dava Sobel 🇫🇷
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, de Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle 🇬🇧
- Le coach aux mille milliards : Les leçons de business et de vie de Bill Campbell, de Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle 🇫🇷
- Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, de Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie 🇬🇧
- The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, de Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher 🇬🇧
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, de Steven Pinker 🇬🇧
- La Part d’ange en nous : Histoire de la violence et de son déclin, de Steven Pinker 🇫🇷
Vous pouvez retrouver la liste de tout le matériel utilisé pour enregistrer nos épisodes sur cette page.
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