Krystal Ball

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44,399 appearances 236 recordings 6 series first heard May 2025 last heard 2d ago

Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 9/21/26: AI Nearly Starts China War, Diesel Prices Skyrocket, Ed Sheeran Mocked For Apology On Palestine · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Military planes were in the air. voice-verified

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report, put together by a special operations command analyst, and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence, and that a chat bot that voice-verified

The analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. voice-verified

The report, according to one of the sources, was quote, entirely false, but it also, quote, almost started a war. voice-verified

Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations. voice-verified

This is terrifying and completely insane. voice-verified

They had an voice-verified

AI chatbot that hallucinated intelligence about this ship carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, a Chinese ship. voice-verified

And we were this close to taking what would have been an extraordinary inflammatory action, risking war with China based on an AI hallucination. voice-verified

I mean, terrifying. voice-verified

that even that seems so wild though. voice-verified

I mean, even if it's not China, any sort of nuclear material coming in from many, I mean, you would think that that would be involvement all the way up to the highest level. voice-verified

And so, you know, the crazy thing is that according to a lot of research that's out there at this point, if this same intelligence analyst had gotten this intel from a human source, I bet you he voice-verified

Have questioned it more. voice-verified

He was okay, this is an extraordinary claim. voice-verified

How do you know where are you getting this from? voice-verified

But there is unfortunately a typical human bias in favor of the machines. voice-verified

Where if the AI tells you people are more likely to accept that without looking into it than if you get it from a human being. voice-verified

So we're seeing that, you know, with this uh near miss of an incident. voice-verified

And then voice-verified

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