WIRED Podcast Maps Three AI Doomsday Scenarios as Altman and Amodei Defend Safety Records
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-18
- WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast breaks down three AI catastrophe scenarios experts worry most about: hacked water supplies, bioweapons, and autonomous robots.
- At Salesforce's annual conference, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei defended their positions on AI safety.
- Backlash against AI has become a rare bipartisan flashpoint — Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon even shared a stage over it.
- Related threads: China ignoring Silicon Valley's slowdown call, no US AI regulation coming soon, and why many AI researchers fear existential risk.
Related event: OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia CEOs Debate AI Safety at Dreamforce(2 posts)→
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