Cal Newport
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23,606 appearances
41 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2d ago
Cal Newport’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This covered a lot of uh my views about Jacob Croxon coming out and saying AI is gonna kill us all and then several senior anthropic employees replying and saying, Yeah, I think it will.
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I think it might kill us all, which is
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Crazy.
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Bonkers.
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So I wrote this article.
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Uh it had three points, which I'll read, and then we're gonna do rapid fire comments and reactions to this piece.
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Uh the first point I made is anthropic and open AI are not able to create superintelligent AI.
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Um
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I just don't think that's continuing to reinforcement train LLMs is not going to re lead to Hell 9000.
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Point two, but their obsession with superintelligence can still create harm.
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So I'm arguing that because they think that's on the table, they're being more reckless and that's creating real harms.
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And point three is AI progress does not have to be this scary or dangerous.
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So my final point is
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Those companies are being irresponsible in a specific way that actually we could have a thriving, exciting, interesting AI industry without all this doom, existential fear, weirdness that they've been spitting at us for multiple years.
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So I'm trying to emphasize this is not inevitable side effect of of uh AI.
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We're facing
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It's in part very specific to the way that these two particular companies are pursuing AI.
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All right.
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