Show Notes
After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!?? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! –
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– The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse Find Dave Karpf:
Website
Bluesky
Blog
New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present
Links:
Jacob Coxon’s thread (X)
Dario Amodei’s response (blog)
Lina Khan’s response (X)
Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18)
Cal Newport (podcast)
Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire)
Ciaran Martin (The Economist)
Will Knight (Wired)
How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? (Pew)
Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI (Pew)
Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work (Reuters)
Pro-Human Assembly (MSN)
AI Diplomacy (Politico)
– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia
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