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Episode 16: The Next Five Years of AI — A Warning, Not a Prediction
Narrated by Charles Sebastian Whitby
Something has changed.
The people building artificial intelligence — the researchers, CEOs, and engineers closest to the technology — have stopped celebrating. They’ve started warning.
In this long-form episode of Philosophy for Better Humans, Charles Sebastian Whitby explores why so many AI insiders believe the next five years may be the most dangerous and consequential period in human history since the invention of nuclear weapons.
This is not a tech hype episode. And it is not science fiction.
It is a sober philosophical examination of acceleration, power, work, meaning, and the human psyche as artificial intelligence begins to outperform us in domains once central to id ...