AI Researchers Are Panicking | What Comes Next is Worse Than Nuclear Bombs

<p>What is PDoom, and why are the people building artificial intelligence willing to risk human extinction?</p><p>Kevin Roose, a New York Times technology columnist, Hard Fork co-host, and author of The AGI Chronicles, shares what he learned from interviewing more than 150 people inside the world’s leading AI companies.</p><p>Kevin joins us on Digital Disruption to talk about what artificial general intelligence really means and how fear, ego, rivalry, and mistrust are accelerating the race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. He also explains why AI leaders compare this moment to the Manhattan Project: if they don’t build AGI first, someone more dangerous might.</p><p>Kevin also shares why he estimates a 10% chance of AI-caused extinction and discusses the private fears of AI researchers, government regulation, autonomous AI agents, and whether the AI boom is a bubble or the beginning of a profound transformation.</p><p>This episode moves beyond the hype to ask an important question: If advanced AI is inevitable, how much control do we still have over what happens next?</p><p>Subscribe and follow for more conversations about AI, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>00:00 Why AI builders fear human extinction</p><p>00:43 Inside the race to build AGI</p><p>01:24 What does AGI actually mean?</p><p>05:16 AI safety warnings or marketing hype?</p><p>07:27 The rivalries driving the AI race</p><p>08:44 Building a boardroom-ready AI strategy</p><p>09:51 The personal feuds behind AGI</p><p>10:58 AI’s Manhattan Project mindset</p><p>12:27 Is AI the new atomic bomb?</p><p>14:58 Can advanced AI be contained?</p><p>16:28 AI regulation and the global arms race</p><p>17:35 What is P(doom)?</p><p>19:54 What will force governments to act?</p><p>21:29 What AI researchers say in private</p><p>23:08 Why the public backlash is growing</p><p>26:15 Why Kevin Roose changed his mind about AI</p><p>29:42 Is advanced AI inevitable?</p><p>32:28 AGI and the point of no return</p><p>34:38 The race to automate AI research</p><p>36:23 AI and gradual human disempowerment</p><p>40:10 What happens when AI masters your skills?</p><p>42:18 Will AI liberate us or replace us?</p><p>44:18 The AI claims Kevin does not believe</p><p>46:21 Is the AI boom a financial bubble?</p><p>50:20 AI labs and economic concentration</p><p>55:08 Inside the AGI chronicles</p><p>57:07 How should people prepare for AI?</p><p>58:29 About Info-Tech</p>