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We're the Chimpanzees

November 8, 2026 · 51 min

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Ben Harack joins Cheap Talk to talk about AI risk and governance; power shifts caused by AI; translating AI into a power advantage; technical means to verify limits on AI; the problem of dark compute; prospects for a political deal to cooperatively limit AI development; the US compute advantage over China; predictions for AI existential risk; and Marcus thought this would be all doom and gloom

Ben Harack is co-founder and Research Lead at the Oxford Hardware AI Governance Lab.

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