Alan Kohler

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9,049 appearances 90 recordings 8 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 2d ago

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ABC Business Daily · Can the government control AI? · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

But also it's kind of p uh true, at least a lot of people see it will will see it as true, right? voice-verified

In which case mm there'll never be cooperation because even if the US and China do come into it, um someone like Russia will say, Well, we want to win actually, so we're not gonna control it or hold it back ourselves. voice-verified

So somebody's gonna um do it, aren't they? voice-verified

It's interesting you mentioned nuclear technology. voice-verified

Um w what do you make of all the talk that's been going on for the last two or three weeks about how AI could kill us all? voice-verified

I mean, even the CEOs of the companies, uh Anthropic and Open AI and all that, they're they're sort of saying that they could w humans could lose control of it. voice-verified

I don't think they're saying that it's gonna kill us, but voice-verified

I mean, what do you make of all this? voice-verified

But a as a politician trying to come up with sort of rules and policy around this, do you sometimes feel everyone in politics around the world is a bit kind of out of their depth? voice-verified

You can say that, you know, you don't listen to what the the people running these companies are doing, but I don't think anyone really understands what they're doing, do they? voice-verified

Do do you accept that this technology is fundamentally different to other technologies we've had in the past, you know, like the Industrial Revolution, steam and electricity and the internet and so on, in that in that those technologies were voice-verified

uh tools that humans used. voice-verified

But this one voice-verified

is based on the idea of autonomy. voice-verified

And it's an agent, not a tool. voice-verified

It it basically it does its own thing. voice-verified

Um and in fact the the you know, in some ways the benefits of it rely on it being autonomous. voice-verified

So voice-verified

In some ways the risk of it is inherent in the benefits. voice-verified

not diff it's not true of any technology that we've ever had that's autonomous. voice-verified

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