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EP186 [全英] Is AI Going to Kill Us All?

September 20, 2026 · 18 min

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Why Some AI Researchers Think There’s a 10% Chance


Imagine you’re about to board a plane, and someone tells you there’s more than a 10% chance it could crash.


Would you still get on?


Now imagine the plane is artificial intelligence—and the possible outcome isn’t a crash, but the extinction of humanity.


It sounds like science fiction. But some of the people building advanced AI genuinely believe the risk is real.


So where does that “10%” come from? What are AI researchers actually afraid of? And if the risk were real, would we ever choose to stop building?


In this episode, we talk about AI doomsday, alignment, superintelligence, p(doom), and the strange logic of an AI arms race.


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