A Stark Warning From a Former AI Doomer

An argument that I've been making for a long time now is that if we really want to understand what's happening in AI. We have to understand The futurist ideologies that are heavily influencing the top frontier labs. Anthropic. And open AI.

The problem is that these ideologies are confusing, and there's rumors swirling around them, and the excerpts we hear can sometimes be absurd, and we think that can't possibly be true. So I thought what would be useful is Is to bring in An insider To explain to us What is really happening in these labs and what do they truly believe?

This is why I'm really happy to to have on the show this week. A mil torres Emil is a researcher and academic who focuses on eschatological and utopian movements. But what makes Emil really useful this discussion is that they used to be involved in these ideologies. Emil comes from the world of futurist ideologies that believed that superintelligent AI would either kill us all or redeem humanity.

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