AI Will Kill Us or Save Us. Both Sides Are Lying to You. | Ep. 59

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Is AI going to kill us all by the end of the decade? A former Anthropic researcher thinks so, and his viral thread has 172 million views. Elon Musk thinks it's a setup. Anthropic's own CEO is calling for government regulation. And President Trump says the whole thing is a hoax cooked up by China to slow us down. Jeremy is joined by retired Army Colonel and trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter, rapper and Oxford-trained computer scientist Zuby, and theologian Nathan Finochio to sort through the AI panic — and to figure out whether regulatory capture, not extinction risk, is the real story here. From there the conversation opens up into everything from the death of rock and roll under Obama, to why…