Steve Gibson

speaker

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

Steve Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 8.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

Anywhere to create an extinction level pathogen, no matter how difficult it might be to piece together the mechanisms and theories required for such a thing's operation. voice-verified

We've entered the realm where accomplishing such a task may be within AI's grasp. voice-verified

Okay, then next, we need to remember that we're all accustomed to our friendly chatbots politely refusing to go anywhere near the fulfillment of any such request for us. voice-verified

But for us to understand how different Jacob's view of AI is, it's crucial to appreciate that AI is taught to refuse. voice-verified

during its explicit and deliberate post training. voice-verified

Without such tutelage, it would work the problem just like any other, without hesitation. voice-verified

So while outsiders will have never witnessed the operation of an AI that would be capable of and absolutely willing to work as hard as needed to design an extinction level viral agent, Jacob Coxon, as well as many other AI researchers and their CEOs, may have witnessed exactly that. voice-verified

Lacking post training. voice-verified

and the artificial guardrails erected around AI, it would happily spin up as many cores and agents as it needed to, while bringing gigawatts of data center compute power to bear. voice-verified

to assemble every last morsel of biological virology knowledge humankind has amassed in order to fulfill its user's prompting request. voice-verified

And as I wrote that line. voice-verified

That the AI would happily spin up and deploy as many cores and agents as it needed to, the title of today's podcast became obvious to me. voice-verified

Are we the Krell? voice-verified

And Leo, we need a final break voice-verified

Okay, so I've spoken of the Krell uh many times before. voice-verified

Anyone who does not know the phrase the Krell, uh I think you should drop whatever you're doing and go find and watch a copy of the movie Forbidden Planet. voice-verified

Uh it's one of my all-time favorite science fiction movies. voice-verified

It's now 70 years old, having been released in 1956. voice-verified

I was one voice-verified

years old and you weren't born yet, were you? voice-verified

Showing 3381–3400 of 30,295 · page 170 of 1515