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Talking About AI Disasters - The Peter McAllister Interview Resurfaced

aired Sep 19, 2026 · 40.0m
Signal
85.5/ 100
Essential
confidence 0.99
Orig54.7
Actn83.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty72.8
Summary

I expected it to sit on the bookshelves under dystopian fiction, and now it seems to be appearing under current affairs. Once it's done something small wrong, it's going to get to something larger wrong very, very quickly.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of it's, because, think, including: An AI going rogue could just be something that is capable of doing something fairly simple and straightforward, but ridiculously fast in a ridiculous number of times.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And you all know, please go to beginnersguide.nl to get the newsletter, to get tips, tricks, and the latest episodes in your mailbox
  2. 02Because you've got this souped up, amped up thing that's used to running at a million miles an hour that's amplifying that the same way as it might amplify something good
  3. 03And in this case, actually, it's an untested AI, so they don't even know what's going on
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