Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)

Is AI going to kill us all? We'll cover it extensively with the appropriate context and nuance on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition coming up right after this. This episode is brought to you by Genesis. What does it actually take to put a gentic AI to work across an entire enterprise? I recently spoke with Genesis chairman and CEO Tony Bates about why orchestration is emerging as a competitive advantage in customer experience and what companies need to get right in the AI era.

Then I sat down with Adam Mitchell, head of Enterprise Business Solutions at Voya Financial to go inside a large-scale Agentic CX transformation, including the business decisions, trade-offs, and lessons along the way. You can watch both conversations now on my YouTube channel today. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. Uh, crazy week of AI news this week. It's hard to fully capture the rolling craziness that's happened in the AI industry, everything from the millennium problem being solved by Open AI and the dispute over credit to what eventually overshadowed it, which is an anthropic researcher came out and said,

He's leaving because he believes AI is going to wipe out humanity, or at least there's a 10% chance that it's going to do that. And that eventually set off a international, I don't know, you'd call it a freakout maybe, um, where everyone from policymakers to senators uh to academics, thought leaders, journalists, and people in the AI industry expressed an opinion. And there's been so much madness about it that we're gonna try to do what our show, hopefully, when we do what we're supposed to do, does best, which is bring some nuance and some cool headedness to this crazy conversation and hopefully at the end of this special report, leave you walking away with some groundedness in it, so the extreme opinions. aren't the ones that rule the day.

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