Joan Mulvihill

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804 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Other Hand · Is humanity a bump in the road for AI? Ethics & the tech bros. · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

He doesn't care.

It's like Sam Altman saying, well, you know, yeah, I think the AI will lead to general human extinction, right?

But, you know, in the meantime, loads of people will have created businesses.

One of the things that I've always remarked about as I having read the book Sapiens is what defines us as humans.

And I know I've spent talked about this in this podcast before, but it's number one, our creativity, the only species that can imagine a world that doesn't exist and bring it to reality.

And the other one is purpose.

And actually, I think the one purpose is always more important and overlooked.

We're the only ones that understand that we have ancestors and we will have descendants.

And yet we seem incapable at the highest level of making the right choices for those descendants.

And we tend to have this habit of cycles where we repeat mistakes of the past every so often.

And that leads to our own kind of destruction.

And so whether it's, you know, world wars and we say, well, we'll never do that again.

And then we get to a point where we kind of press the self-destruct button and we do it again.

And my concern is that the tools are now getting more and more powerful again.

that the dice that you roll every time you press the self-detonate button, the self-destruct button, it really is infinitely more destructive now than it used to be.

And it's almost like these guys have this crazy psychopathy that is, I wonder how far we can go.

Like, what's the point of a trillion?

What would you do with it?

It's an order of magnitude that is inexplicably hard to understand and utterly pointless.

It's a pointless amount of money.

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