Ben Bradford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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How do we stop these really real, practical things that are actual threats?
How do we stop them from happening?
And what are the ones that we just don't have to worry about?
So the experts that I talk to and the places that track this, there are places that track what is called existential risk or global catastrophic risk.
They really put four on the list.
And that is nuclear war, climate change, pandemics, and then AI is typically on the list now, which is really interesting.
And one of the things that connects all of these dangers and makes them really pressing is that really the danger is us.
These are things that are made by humans.
You know, we're talking about man-made climate change, the ability for nations, rogue states to manipulate viruses, those kinds of things.
Yeah, like when I did this episode, it was like AI can't draw fingers.
It's like, why is this thing that can't draw fingers?
Yeah, like how's that going to take us out?
And I thought this episode's going to be a total lark.
And then we walk through it with various experts who study it and people who see what the people who are building it think.
And it starts to feel a lot less sci-fi.
You know, there are only a few things that you would need, and they're big things, to have this happen.
But if you really break it down, you need to have an AI that would be sophisticated enough and autonomous enough to be able to take action against us.
But that doesn't mean it has to avoid hallucinating or that it needs to be able to draw fingers, right?
We have AIs that are very good at coding already and are very useful for that.
They're just not all that autonomous.
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