Veteran software engineer Carl Brown of Internet of Bugs joins me to expose the fallacy and dodgy claims that superintelligence and AI will kill humans.


We discussed how the tech sector reached its current messy situation, starting with social platforms that learned to reward outrage, engagement, and extreme opinions long before today’s AI boom.


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