Brett Adcock

I just, um...

Yeah, I just, I'm taking a, I'm probably at, I feel like peak career and my team with me is like peak team, peak resources.

The stuff I'm working on, I feel like is very important for the world, which is also great.

I didn't, you know, doing Vetteri is like, there was a part of me saying like, okay, is this like the thing I want to spend my whole life doing?

And I have that here, which is great.

These are the things I want to spend all my time on for the next 20, 30, 40 years.

So it's good.

I just don't want to screw it up now, you know?

Oh, yeah.

Make them work.

We're doing a pretty damn good job, I think.

All right, we're wrapping up the interview.

I got a hot question to ask you.

You ready?

Let's do it.

For decades, movies taught us to fear robots becoming self-aware and turning on people.

But in the real world, we still don't have public evidence of conscious machines.

What we do have are real cases of robots harming people from Robert Williams being killed by a Ford industrial robot in 1979 to the viral 2025

unitry H1 malfunction that showed how violently a humanoid system can lose control, plus longstanding research warnings that robots in homes can create privacy and security vulnerabilities in ongoing global debate over autonomous weapons.

So is the bigger threat not conscious machines at all, but obedient machines that can still malfunction, be hacked, surveilled through remotely controlled, or turned into tools of intimidation, assassination, or state power?