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EPISODE · Jul 19, 2025 · 46 MIN

How AI Safety Birthed a Killing Spree

from Talk Cocktail · host Jeff Schechtman

On this California Sun podcast I talk with Christopher Beam, whose recent New York Times investigation, reveals how a group of brilliant minds from Google, NASA, and the rationalist movement in Berkeley became part of a murderous cult-like group known as the “Zizians.”Unlike Charles Manson’s dropouts, these tech elites weaponized artificial intelligence fears and rational thinking into deadly extremism, which was enabled by California’s tolerance for radical ideas.This post is FREE for everyone. Please spread it far and wide. And please consider becoming a paid subscriber to TalkCocktail. It’s $8 a month or just $80 for the entire year! Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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