Tom Slater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
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I didn't realise what this was.
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something to do with the ginger thing?
Just to
Fuck.
It's all in the jig.
questions.
Well, I suppose there's two things here which maybe need to be disaggregated a little bit.
One of which is whether or not the AI revolution is going to pose the sort of sort of level of threat that's currently being talked about.
I try to be a sort of optimist about technology, but where this issue is concerned, they're really not making it easy.
Um of course we have a history, a rich history of panics about technological developments.
Uh do
Doomsday predictions about whether it was something as significant as nuclear weapons or something as relatively less threatening, it would seem in theory, is the rise of the internet has always been met with these kinds of prognostications.
That being said, as you mentioned there, Constantine, there is a couple of things which make this very, very different.
One of which is previous conversations about the idea of something like nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands obviously applies here.
I mean, it would be funny going back to what Winston was saying that if the twist was that.
that when people said that the Houthis and China and Russia were using AI, they were using it to make memes, but I doubt that will be the case.
Um
But so there is the issue of them put it falling into the wrong hands or it being developed by the wrong people.
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