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AI Researchers Are Panicking | What Comes Next is Worse Than Nuclear Bombs

aired Sep 21, 2026 · 59.0m
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Summary

There's this statistic that people in San Francisco like to throw around called P-Doom, which is your probability estimate of how likely we all are to die from AI. I meet many people at AI companies whose P-Dooms are 30, 40, 50%.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, know, including: I usually say mine is about 10%, which in San Francisco qualifies you as something of an optimist.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Why are the smartest people in AI continuing to build a technology they believe could end humanity?
  2. 02What he uncovered is a race driven by innovation, fear, ego, personal rivalries, and the belief that if they don't build AGI first, someone worse will
  3. 03Even the same people sometimes disagree with themselves internally about what this means Some people say this is a computer as smart as the average human across a lot of different
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