Listen "AI-Driven Extinction: Beyond the Hype—EP28"
Episode Synopsis
While AI extinction warnings often sound like sci-fi hype, the very scientists who built these systems are now warning that preventing AI from wiping out humanity belongs on the same list of global priorities as stopping nuclear war—and the danger isn’t distant, it’s already accelerating. In this episode, we dissect RAND Corporation’s chilling report On the Extinction Risk from Artificial Intelligence, which maps out how AI could hijack nuclear arsenals, engineer pathogens, or weaponize climate systems. Our goal isn’t panic but survival intelligence: stripping away Hollywood fantasy to confront what an AI extinction event might truly look like, which red lines could trigger civilization’s collapse, and why the facts in this report may be the most urgent you’ll ever encounter.
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