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Julia Black

Julia Black

Legal scholar and former president of the British Academy

Nov 6, 2026

17:08
right now.
17:09
Yeah, it's basically one person and that's her.
17:11
But what was interesting and why I decided to lean into this story is that just a couple of weeks ago, she and Greg were at Mar-a-Lago sitting at the head of the table with Sergey Brin and Donald Trump.
17:24
It was four people wide.
17:26
And, you know, this was a period where tech already appeared to be distancing itself from MAGA.
17:32
Sam Altman has—well, I've actually heard he's continued to appear at the White House, but not as publicly.
17:38
But Greg was the one who was sent to sign the accord on superintelligence.

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37:26
Yeah, they should ban it.
12:10
Wow
12:10
... definitely my claim to fame and my, my moment in history.
12:13
Um- But I think that the reason that happened is because Luca Guadagnino, the director, really consulted with primary sources.
12:21
He worked with people who worked at OpenAI.
12:23
Simon Rich, who wrote the script...
12:25
Uh, actually, at The New Yorker, there's this great little mini documentary, um, that Simon participated in 'cause he went to, I believe, high school with someone pretty high up at OpenAI.
12:36
So I think he came to the script with a certain amount of background knowledge.

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43:37
[laughs] Julia, any final thoughts?
6:09
And it would help change the public's understanding about Musk's obsessive desire to have a legion of children.
6:18
This is so much bigger than just the births of a couple of children and some tabloid story.
6:23
This is really, if you ask me, in Elon's mind, about reshaping the public understanding of a natural genetic hierarchy and taking these ideas to suggest that some people are just born better and therefore deserve a higher place in society and are natural-born leaders.
6:44
And, you know, if we see inequality...
6:47
In society, that's not a problem.
6:49
It's simply a reflection of biology.
6:52
So this stuff goes pretty deep.

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48:15
It's a trend that Julia sees all the time in her reporting.

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