Nilay Patel

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420 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Apple News Today · The AI warnings are getting louder. Here’s what you need to know. · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

And the the best version of this was then all the startups will go to China because they'll have better infrastructure. voice-verified

None of this happened. voice-verified

And for the vast majority of people, their experience with 5G here in 2026 is this is pretty slow. voice-verified

Like it's not great. voice-verified

Like other New York State is like a highly dense area with lots of cell towers on this is still pretty slow, right? voice-verified

So the specter of China just looms in these kinds of races where you're trying to deploy a lot of capital and you just need an excuse. voice-verified

And so voice-verified

That's one framework for looking at it. voice-verified

The other framework, which I I think many of the people in the industry are using and potentially Donald Trump is using, is well, if China gets to AGI first, they will have an offensive cyber capability. voice-verified

They will have an economic capability to develop new things and new manufacturing capabilities and new drugs that we will not be able to compete with, and something bad will happen to us because China will get to some capability before we do. voice-verified

And maybe you think that's true. voice-verified

Maybe you think China's gonna get to an offensive cyber capability that is overwhelming and then they for some reason choose to destroy the world with it. voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

It is unclear why they would do that given that we are their largest trading partner and like all the things are made there and sold here. voice-verified

Like you have to get to some next step that no one can quite articulate to me. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And so I I think the specter of China just looms as a way to say something scary that ends a conversation. voice-verified

China getting there first. voice-verified

I think anybody who who makes that claim has to really articulate. voice-verified

What about it is so scary that it prevents us from being responsible. voice-verified

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