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EPISODE · Jun 23, 2026 · 44 MIN

Americano: will AI extinguish humanity? With Nate Soares

from Best of the Spectator

Freddy Gray is joined by Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to discuss the risks posed to humanity by AI. Warning that sufficiently intelligent AI may stop following human instructions entirely, Soares tells Freddy what, if anything, could keep AI from spiralling out of control.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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