FT's Rachman recommends Toby Ord podcast on the AI extinction risk debate
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-10-01
FT columnist Gideon Rachman recommends a podcast with Oxford philosopher Toby Ord, who has written about existential risk from AI for years. Ord lays out the debate over whether AI could cause human extinction in calm, clear terms—though the conclusions are, as Rachman notes, less than reassuring.
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