Ben Bradford

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Up First from NPR · Should we worry about the end of the world? · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, just, you know, imagine handing everyone who wants to do harm like the best assistant.

You know, one of the things that AI is really good at right now is virology.

So there's a lot of hope and optimism in the medical community.

I was just talking to someone about vaccines and the ability to use AI to help calibrate new vaccines is a hopeful thing.

But of course, if you can do it for vaccines, you also can do it for engineered viruses.

Yeah.

And so you get in this area where, yes, like there is this really big issue of how humans misuse AI.

And that can be if the AI is too smart.

It can also be if it's too dumb.

Like there's a lot of push in multiple countries to incorporate AI into the nuclear command and control system, which like, I don't know about you, like immediately your mind might be flashing too.

Yeah.

don't let this thing push the button, which no one's talking about doing.

Big levers that you have to really pull down

Yeah.

So when we've looked at a lot of these threats on the show.

The risk just hasn't been as high as the man-made threats we were just talking about.

And that's because of time, right?

These things just happen on a much longer timeframe.

So they're real, but we're talking over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

And in those sorts of timeframes, it means that, one, the percentage chance of something happening is much lower.

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