
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - But HOW Might A.I. Kill Us All?
Published: September 18, 2026
Duration: 30:04
Why did the “Hugging Face Incident” scare A.I. researchers so much? And if they are so confident artificial intelligence needs to be slowed down, why aren’t they slowing it down?
Guest: Nate Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, co-author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”
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