Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
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Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 11, 20261 hr 1 min

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon quits and says AI might kill everyone 2) Why did his tweet go so viral 3) Did Elon Musk contribute to the X virality? 4) Point of order: Let's add some serenity to the AI risk conversation 5) Adding percentages to your statement of AI wiping out humanity doesn' t make it math 6) Is this marketing for the AI labs? 7) Politicians are hungry to regulate AI 8) Should we focus on science fact, not science fiction? 9) What if these fears are reasonable? 10) God...

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Is AI going to kill us all? We'll cover it extensively with the appropriate context and nuance on a big technology podcast Friday edition coming up right after this.

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Welcome to big technology podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. Crazy week of AI news this week.

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It's hard to fully capture the rolling craziness that's happened in the AI industry, everything from the millennium problem being solved by open AI and the dispute over credit

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