Rowan Hooper

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1,427 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

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The World, the Universe and Us · THIS Is What You Need To Worry About With The Rise Of AI · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

And people often, you hear that, you know, this comparison to the Industrial Revolution, we had that mechanized so many jobs that people used to do and that changed the entire world. voice-verified

And is it going to be the same for the cognitive jobs that we have now in the same way that the Industrial Revolution got rid of manual jobs? voice-verified

Yeah, so I saw Shane Legg, who was one of the co-founders of Google DeepMind, saying that as a rule of thumb, if you currently can do your job remotely, then that job basically can be done by an AI either now or pretty soon. voice-verified

people talk about it like giving a genie when you have a genie voice-verified

wish. voice-verified

genie interprets it exactly as you said. voice-verified

And then voice-verified

these terrible consequences come out. voice-verified

So that's what we're talking about. voice-verified

doing. voice-verified

just say Hugging Face? voice-verified

It sounds like it's from a William Gibson novel or something. voice-verified

Well, thanks for the origin story of hugging face. voice-verified

Another example about the alignment problem that's less dramatic than hugging face was this one from Australia where someone told an agent, like, go and get me on this gym class I'm desperate for. voice-verified

And the agent... voice-verified

basically was right, I will do anything to get my person on there and cancelled someone else's gym. voice-verified

full. voice-verified

Yeah, exactly. voice-verified

And then in order to get the person on, you know, dumped someone else out. voice-verified

So one idea, though, OK, I know, Jacob, we could have prevented the hugging face thing by just looking after, by humans looking after it properly. voice-verified

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