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Lei Huang

Lei Huang

AI research scientist and ethnographer; co-creator of the feature-length AI documentary "Machine God" with Steve Hsu and John Greer.

Sep 10, 2026

6:14
How did you feel, Lei?
6:16
Uh, I was super excited.
6:18
I remember that afternoon vividly.
6:20
We were munching over Chinatown dim sums and talking about making a film about AGI and its risk.
6:27
I think, Steve, at the time, you pitched the idea perfectly.
6:32
You said, "This is the epicenter of the whole light cone.
6:35
This is, uh, where future is being created." And I also feel that very vividly, that is, the w- words like AGI, singularity, intelli- intelligence explosion, these kind of words just get tossed around as if they are about as commonly as bananas and muffins and et cetera here.

21 MINS LATER

27:45
The markets, the capital markets are so mature now that you can, boom, just suddenly create like the most valuable company in history if everybody's sold on the potential of, of what they're doing and where it's actually happening where you guys are sitting.

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