Krystal Ball

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44,786 appearances 237 recordings 6 series first heard May 2025 last heard 3d 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

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

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

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