Reality Check
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Reality Check: the AI apocalypse is just good marketing
- Published
- September 22, 2026
- Duration
- 17:20
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 23, 2026
Discusses artificial-intelligence, daily, society, culture.
Summary
Some whistleblowers from the AI industry claim there is a more than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within a few years. A group of mostly Labour MPs has written to Andy Burnham calling for action on existential AI risk, while conceding there is little the British government can do about it alone.Michael Simmons speaks to Jo…
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Show notes
Some whistleblowers from the AI industry claim there is a more than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within a few years. A group of mostly Labour MPs has written to Andy Burnham calling for action on existential AI risk, while conceding there is little the British government can do about it alone.Michael Simmons speaks to John Power about the incentives behind the warnings, whether AI can realistically be regulated and why more mundane harms, from AI-written compla
Themes
- artificial-intelligence
- daily
- society
- culture