Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

And that's how they kind of position themselves as these experts who've been working on AI for decades. matched

Like some of them might actually work in, say, the development side of things, but the the the forecasting stuff and the future forward looking stuff that they put out there is just projections that are, you know, vaguely maybe based on some of the science like there, but like they're matched

They're for me a bit more science fiction and science fantasy than anything else. matched

Um like yeah, I I uh I tend not to take them too seriously. matched

Maybe that's just me, but I listen to people who are matched

you know, producing peer reviewed research that's reproducible. matched

can be interrogated. matched

I think that's a bit more reliable here. matched

But Yudkowski actually set up something called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

So, you know, they are positioning themselves as these kind of experts in the area of research in this area. matched

And who's been listening to Yudkowski but Bernie Sanders? matched

He's been meeting with this Intelligence Research Institute and Yudkowski. matched

And I suppose matched

Yeah. matched

I think that's a really good point actually. matched

I think they are politically agnostic. matched

But that nearly adds to the power, I guess, because you can play both sides and like really what they're all about is like they like I said, they do genuinely believe in this idea of a superintelligence being built and they are scared of it, some of them. matched

But they're also like they're really, really heavily backed financially. matched

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