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Will Knight

Will Knight

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Sep 17, 2026

Leah FeigerHOST
2:39
I'm so happy we're doing this.
Leah FeigerHOST
2:42
We had, like, such a great podcast last week with Wired's Will Knight talking about everyone being concerned about this, but I want, like, a breakdown.
Leah FeigerHOST
2:50
I need, I need you to just, like, take me through every single scenario from bioweapons to nuclear codes to, like, what are we really talking about here when we're talking about AI death bots.
Zoe SchifferHOST
3:04
We are going to do our very best.
Ari MelberHOST
27:56
Now, the people running the AI say it is not just a fictional threat.
Ari MelberHOST
28:01
I want to bring in Will Knight, WIRED senior writer who covers AI and writes the AI Lab newsletter.
Ari MelberHOST
28:07
Uh, welcome.
Ari MelberHOST
28:08
Some of the conversations that people are starting to have now, you've been engaged in for literally years.
Brian BarrettHOST
1:36
So just real-- kill us all by the end of the decade, so we have totality and a pretty narrow timeframe.
Brian BarrettHOST
1:41
It didn't help that one of Anthropic's own senior safety executives then jumped in and said, "Yeah, that's basically how we feel." Wired senior correspondent Will Knight is here to help us parse this.
Brian BarrettHOST
1:52
Will, thank you so much for being here.
Will KnightGUEST
1:54
No, thanks for having me.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:16
President Trump has signed an executive order asking tech companies to give the government oversight of new AI models before their public release.
Zoe SchifferHOST
2:23
So could the US and China actually benefit from working together, and what would it take to even make that happen? Earlier this summer, Wired's senior correspondent Will Knight visited China to get some answers.
Zoe SchifferHOST
2:35
Will Knight, thank you so much for being here.
Will KnightGUEST
2:37
Thanks for having me.
Zoe SchifferHOST
2:38
Okay.

17 MINS LATER

Will KnightGUEST
20:00
Meanwhile, the US is cutting funding for science, which I think is a...
Will KnightGUEST
20:03
I think is just the biggest scandal, personally.
Zoe SchifferHOST
20:08
Will Knight, thank you so much for being here.
PeteHOST
31:50
But in terms of actually the card for A.W. Wembley, all in.
PeteHOST
31:55
I'm only aware of this title match, which is obviously the main event, Will Ospreay versus Kenny Omega, and obviously Edge and Christian versus, or Edge and Corp, sorry, Corp and Christian versus the Young Bucks for the tag team titles, and then obviously Mercedes versus Will Knight and Gale, but other than that, I can't think of any of the matches off the top of my head.
PeteHOST
32:12
I've got all the answers being on Kenny Omega.
LukeHOST
32:15
It has, so, yeah, I'll talk about it a little bit, like, as kind of a negative, like, the overall build, but I did put the card down since we're doing an AEW special and we've got a massive pay-to-view in England, so the card itself is you've got the Trios World Championship match, which is Brodie Doe and Hangman Page versus Mystery Mystery, and that's looking like it's going to be Ricochet Boo and his little dorks versus Swerve Strickland and probably The New Day.

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