Good News: We Beat China. Bad News: AI Killed Everyone. | Nate Soares | The Jeff Dornik Show

About this episode

Are we actually in an AI arms race with China, or is “China” the magic word Silicon Valley uses whenever it wants Americans to stop asking annoying questions and hit the accelerator? Today at 1pm ET, I’m joined by Nate Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. We’re getting into where AI is actually headed, what happens if we succeed in building something smarter than humanity, President Trump officially rebranding AI as “Super Intelligence” or “SI,” why so many Silicon Valley AI companies suddenly seem very interested in government regulation, and whether regulation is really…