Season Two Coming Soon! AI and the Apocalypse
4/22/20263 min
The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all.
Season One of Suspicious Minds examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?
Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Th...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:00
I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.
Speaker 2· Host0:03
[suspenseful music] It is currently the year 2026. The world is at war. Reality is shifting under our feet, and we have entered a new era of the apocalypse. While still reckoning with the existential threats of nuclear war, climate collapse, and looming pandemics, a new man-made engine of extinction has emerged: total annihilation via artificial intelligence, the AI apocalypse. This is Suspicious Minds. On season one, we examine what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Now, on season two, what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:44
In 20 minutes, the whole world could be, like, reduced to radioactive ash.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:49
We used to be worried about states having weapons of mass destruction, but now we have CEOs with weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 2· Host0:55
I've spent the last two years speaking with philosophers, scientists, historians, and theologians about the apocalypse and how it shapes the human mind.
Speaker 1· Soundbite1:05
Doomsday prepping has become institutionalised in American political life.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:10
If enough of us fundamentally believe that the world's going to end, then we're gonna govern ourselves as, as if we are.
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:15
Am I like Noah's Ark? Is God having me build this for a reason? Sometimes I get like this, like why?
Speaker 5· Soundbite1:21
There is not yet a theological discussion about AI.
Speaker 3· Soundbite1:24
What's gonna end the world are greedy companies and a human propensity towards hoarding of capital.