Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Rowan Hooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI says it doesn't take as much imagination as it used to for us to imagine how this could go wrong. voice-verified

I think the world is right to be afraid of this. voice-verified

King Charles has weighed in on this now. voice-verified

He says AI's powers could potentially be used in catastrophic ways and this means controls are needed before it's all too late. voice-verified

OK, so we're going to unpick and examine in particular those three points. voice-verified

How will AI compete with humans? voice-verified

How it could all go wrong? voice-verified

And what is the alignment problem and how do we solve it? voice-verified

From New Scientist, this is the World Universe and Us. voice-verified

I'm Dr Rowan Hooper. voice-verified

So instead of P Doom, are they saying like P Doom hack? voice-verified

And we've got, what's the P-Doom hack at the moment then? voice-verified

is real, but they are fears, right? voice-verified

You know, we talk about the Terminator. voice-verified

You already mentioned the Terminator, but there are these more prosaic, not Hollywood ways that things could go wrong. voice-verified

And maybe that's what Mustafa Suleiman was getting at when he was talking about the silicon species, the competition, basically. voice-verified

The economy in the jobs market is going to change, isn't it? voice-verified

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