Coping With The AI Takeover

AI experts, executives, and inventors themselves are sounding the alarm – warning us that an AI takeover could threaten all of humanity within just the next ten years. In other words, the call is coming from INSIDE the house.

This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the full context behind the looming AI threat and its potential ten‑year countdown (and why the narrative is, unsurprisingly, more complicated than the spooky, scary headlines). They contemplate the echo chamber inside Silicon Valley, the psychology that makes our worst‑case scenarios feel super inevitable, and the machine‑god anxieties that have shaped culture for centuries.

In a conversation about AI fears, futurism, and the ethics of progress, they mull over our obsession with acceleration – whether it’s sustainable, whether it’s necessary, and whether our future actually involves living among the stars (or just coping with what we’ve already built).

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Could AI Really Wipe Out Humanity and Hijack the Internet? by Robert Booth, Dan Milmo and Aisha Down, The Guardian

AI Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That? By William J. Broad and Cade Metz, New York Times

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics’ Says All The Doom Talk ‘is Meant to Distract Us’ by Lauren Goode, WIRED

The AI Researcher Who’s Investment Is Changing Everything on The Daily, New York Times

The AI Tipping Point by Billy Perrigo, Harry Booth and Naomi Nix, TIME

This Is Really Bad by Stephen Witt, New York Times