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AI Researchers Are Panicking | What Comes Next is Worse Than Nuclear Bombs
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What is PDoom, and why are the people building artificial intelligence willing to risk human extinction? 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. 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. Kevin also shares why he…