#1260 Émile Torres: The Risks of AI and Climate Change
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player
Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by your return guest, Dr. Emil Torres. They are now an affiliate at Data and Society. And let me just make reference to their amazing book, Human Extinction, that we covered on the show, a history of the science and ethics of annihilation. And today we're going to talk about their post their sub stack. posts why you should never use AI under any circumstances for any reason no matter what. And if we have enough time, humanity won't go extinct this century, but civilization will probably collapse. So two very optimistic posts Uh and then and then Mill, thank you so much for Coming back on the show. It's always a huge pleasure to have you.
Yeah, uh thanks for inviting me again. It's it's wonderful to chat with you. Okay, so let's start With AI here. Uh so first of all, I mean I've I've been hearing about this term a lot
Ей ай сло What is that exactly? Yeah. Uh This is increasingly
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (65 minutes, 10,309 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.