Steve Gibson

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30,295 appearances 25 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Security Now (Audio) · SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

The past week's news has been almost entirely dominated by news outlets covering the story of the departure. voice-verified

It was all triggered by the departure of Jason Coxon, uh, an anthropic AI engineer, uh, who quit after apparently only being there for six weeks, then went loudly public to express his worries that humanity voice-verified

is not sufficiently heeding the extinction level threat posed by the emergence of artificial superintelligence. voice-verified

uh when these news outlets then sought the opinions of others within the AI development community, they were further unnerved to learn that voice-verified

Apparently, this is a worry that many in the field share, right up to and including those companies' CEOs. voice-verified

Um, since it would be imp probably impossible to imagine any more powerful clickbait, the entire internet more or less, you know, blew up and lost its mind over this. voice-verified

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The answer to the question, Will AI kill us all? voice-verified

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Is actually rather nuanced and I think should not be immediately dismissed out of hand. voice-verified

We can have some fun exploring it. voice-verified

The most obvious parallel the doomsdayers keep repeating is the emergence of Skynet, right? voice-verified

How many times have we heard oh Skynet from the Terminator movie franchise? voice-verified

However, based upon everything I have learned about the way AI actually operates, the proper question to ask, if you want to ask the question, would be. voice-verified

Will we leverage the power of AI to kill ourselves? voice-verified

Now, rephrasing the question in this way would lead any science fiction historian to this week's podcast title. voice-verified

Are we the krill? voice-verified

Before we're able to address the question, will we leverage the power of AI to kill ourselves? voice-verified

We need to first consider whether AI will give us that power to misuse in the first place. voice-verified

So, to that end, the other big AI news of the past week was OpenAI's announcement of their AI-aided discovery of a proof of voice-verified

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