David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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The Opinions · Trump’s Political Instincts ‘Are Clearly Fading’ · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

We know what it's like to live under the threat of an almost instantaneous extinction level event that we voice-verified

Where we were putting an enormous amount of trust in governmental leaders, not just here, but also in the Soviet Union, to manage this catastrophic conflict in a responsible way. voice-verified

So some of us are sort of starting to get deja vu when we hear about this extinction level stuff. voice-verified

But at a time when a lot of the leader class and in the world seems to be heedless, reckless, thoughtless, deeply populous. voice-verified

So if you voice-verified

be an adult in the room. voice-verified

There's an enormous amount of politic, I think political promise, an enormous sort of blue ocean opportunity for good governance. voice-verified

Now here's the peril. voice-verified

I do think that we're going too far in the sort of the anti-data center voice-verified

um movement and and sort of in some of these regulatory ideas that are in essence trying to put a hard stop to the kind of technological development that does have a lot of promise. voice-verified

And so we we're on the cusp of a technology, and I'll use the nuclear analogy, even though it's very imperfect. voice-verified

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It wasn't owned by you didn't have a bunch of nukes in the hands of a collection of billionaires, right? voice-verified

One of the problems we have with AI is that we see who's developing it, and there's zero trust in the leadership of these institutions, zero trust for good reasons. voice-verified

So it's a technology that we don't fully understand and the hands of people accountable often to really nobody whom we also don't trust for good reasons. voice-verified

And so that makes us. voice-verified

feel different even from the nuclear age, which was much more immediately dangerous at its height than AI is. voice-verified

But the difference is voice-verified

Who's in charge? voice-verified

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