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

I think the technology is really cool. voice-verified

I think it's exciting, the idea of what it could be deployed, deployed for. voice-verified

I buy into some of the positive. voice-verified

Of possibilities of what could be done with it. voice-verified

But what Obama's pointing out here is that they're selling you on the idea that you have to have this frontier development and you have to have AI that is agentic in order to accomplish those positive scientific or medical developments. voice-verified

And the reason that the AI companies want to sell you that is because the agentic AI is the piece that could theoretically replace human beings in the world. voice-verified

Workforce. voice-verified

Agentic AI just means basically AI that can sort of like go out in the world and do its own thing. voice-verified

Very different from the chat bot that you're likely using on a day-to-day basis where you ask it for something and it delivers for you. voice-verified

The agentic AI is able to take actions in the world without being under direct human oversight. voice-verified

And so what Obama is saying here is that many of the potential positive benefits of AI. voice-verified

Can come without using agentic AI. voice-verified

It can be a tool in the hands of the researcher. voice-verified

It can be a tool in the hands of the coder, of the scientist, of the people who, you know, would really benefit from this in terms of making these technological breakthroughs that would be very exciting for AI. voice-verified

I think that's a very important point because we're not saying you can't have this technology at all. voice-verified

We have to put it all back in the bottle, although there are probably some of my husband included who would say that's probably the way to come. voice-verified

Go, but you can have, you can sort of have your cake and eat it too. voice-verified

We don't have to go through down this path of recursive self-improvement. voice-verified

We don't have to go down this path of um fully embracing agentic AI. voice-verified

And so I think that's an important point. voice-verified

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