Annie Jacobsen
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She was 1.1 miles from ground zero.
She was buried in rubble.
And she tells this remarkable story of like, you know, thinking she died and then having someone realizing there was a hand on her shoulder.
And it was someone else telling her to leave the building because it was about, you know, she would have died.
Fires were beginning.
And her whole statement about her whole life is, you know, climb out of the dark and into the light.
And it's so powerful.
And sometimes I think about her life experience as a human to have survived something like that and to have, you know, she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
Imagine what that must have been like for her.
She was in a girl's school and they worked for the Japanese military.
That's how desperate the Japanese army was at the time.
They had the 13-year-old girls working for them.
And she tells these horrific details that she could remember.
And she's just the brightest star and the hugest advocate.
And people like that are just so inspiring.
But do you see an analogy between nuclear weapons and AI?
The nuclear weapons buildup of the 50s and 60s was done without guardrails.