Rory Stewart

I love Penguin Audiobooks, partly because I'm a Penguin audiobook person.

Selecting the titles that help us think clearly about where the world is heading, what's at stake when power and technology move faster than politics.

It's written by Lisa Yudkowsky and by Nate Soares.

It is a really fascinating lesson.

And if you want to see the extreme case for fear around AI, this is a book arguing why AI could potentially kill us.

And he does it in the style of really good popular science.

He's also very, very good on explaining how in some ways these large language models are evolutionary.

They're sort of natural bodies that are developing rather than things that are fully programmed like old models.

He was right at the heart of the AI revolution.

He's very controversial.

There will be people, and you'll see this in the miniseries, who are horrified that we're recommending it.

But I think listen to it.

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