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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 235 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 37.

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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

And so it's part of what makes Trump very difficult for people to wrap their heads around that someone could be so talented in some ways and so stupid at the same time. voice-verified

But he's kind of a mirror image reflection of the AI. voice-verified

love him dearly, PhD physicists. voice-verified

I have some experience with this directly in my life. voice-verified

Hi, this is Haile Breakman, Angela Giritana, voice-verified

And we're the hosts of the Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists Podcast. voice-verified

Obama was at Colgate University in upstate New York, and he spoke on a number of topics, but he spent a long time talking about AI. voice-verified

And it was such a stark contrast with Trump like tweeting out, eh, should we call it superior intelligence or supreme intelligence? voice-verified

Because he clearly has thought about it, knows some things about it, is able to articulate that clearly, take seems to take it seriously. voice-verified

Let's take a listen to his comments and then voice-verified

And we'll, you know, talk about the Obama, you know, the the pitfalls with Obama on the other side of it. voice-verified

So I wanna underscore his point there because I think it's a very important one. voice-verified

You know, I am of the mind that we should that we should stop frontier AI development, that we should not, that we should ban what's called recursive self-improvement. voice-verified

Um, Azure Klein had a very good essay about exactly this, which effectively means you are handing over human control to the AI to build themselves. voice-verified

You are deciding to take the human out of the loop. voice-verified

Um, you know, there's a lot of concern, again, justifiably so, about humans losing control. voice-verified

That amounts to humans handing control to the AI. voice-verified

And there's a sense, I think, uh, that a lot of people who hold my position are just against the technology altogether. voice-verified

It's not true. voice-verified

I use the technology myself. voice-verified

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