Sam Schechner
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302 appearances
14 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 14 Sep
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Politicians have seen that this is an important issue.
They are calling for legislation, things like a kill switch, mandatory transparency and reporting requirements for companies.
At the same time, there are voices who say we don't need more rules that could slow down American AI or that there's already rules on the book, product safety regulations and other ways that the government could be investigating some of these companies.
At some level, what people are most scared of is that we don't even really understand all the different ways that it could happen.
At some level, what people are most scared of is that we don't even really understand all the different ways that it could happen.
We've seen the Terminator, you can imagine planes falling from the sky, you can imagine a bioweapon being engineered, or an AI tricking two countries into sparking a nuclear war.
AI is getting more and more deeply embedded in our world.
And in some sense, we're handing off more and more of our decision making to AI.
And so
There's a version where it's not necessarily a bang but a whimper in the sort of a wall-y future where humans become basically AI pets.
Or AIs could kind of worm their way into all the kinds of human governance and then take over in a dramatic fashion and marginalize humans or finally decide to exterminate them.
In some senses, that's a more present-day concern.
We already are seeing hackers using AI tools to pull off different types of hacking than they were able to before.
And the concern here is that as the skills improve and you give that to the world, then you're gonna end up with potentially a lot of cyber attacks.
The same thing, potentially even more scary, with bioweapons.
All you need is one crazy person.
person who decides they want to use a a super powerful AI to develop a pathogen and an AI that's capable to do so, and you could end up with another pandemic.
That is a great question.
It's one I ask myself too, because I've been in AI labs where they've been studying the propensity for these kinds of of dangers for years now.
But I think what we're seeing is a confluence of different factors.
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