Sep 29, 2026 · 57 min · 12 segments
Welcome back to Chaos Theory! Hassan has just returned from the UN General Assembly, where winning the AI race was top of the agenda. Mike's party has just won a council by-election against a Reform…
Hassan DamlujiHost
Mike MartinHost
It won't have escaped anyone that there's been a lot of news about AI recently.
It's probably fair to say that a lot of that's been manufactured by the people who want you to hear certain things in the news.
10% doesn't seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans.
Yes.
What do you think are the chances? Over the grand sweep of history, if you step back, you zoom all the way back and you think about how does evolution happen in a technological age? It doesn't happen so much through the kind of process of random evolution.
selection that happened before, right? Because there is control, right? And so I think that there is a decent chance that eventually carbon and oxygen based life gives way to silicon based life.
I think it's probably unlikely to happen anywhere near our lifetimes or our children's lifetimes.
Because whilst that's, you know, a 10% or a 1% or a 0.0001% risk or whatever it is, there are things happening right now that aren't risks.
They're actually just processes that are creating huge power imbalances between countries.
Of course, we already live in a world where there are huge power imbalances between countries.
But AI is increasing that a lot and changing the map of those power imbalances.
It won't have escaped anyone that there's been a lot of news about AI recently.
It's probably fair to say that a lot of that's been manufactured by the people who want you to hear certain things in the news.
10% doesn't seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans.
Yes.
What do you think are the chances? Over the grand sweep of history, if you step back, you zoom all the way back and you think about how does evolution happen in a technological age? It doesn't happen so much through the kind of process of random evolution.
selection that happened before, right? Because there is control, right? And so I think that there is a decent chance that eventually carbon and oxygen based life gives way to silicon based life.
I think it's probably unlikely to happen anywhere near our lifetimes or our children's lifetimes.
Because whilst that's, you know, a 10% or a 1% or a 0.0001% risk or whatever it is, there are things happening right now that aren't risks.
They're actually just processes that are creating huge power imbalances between countries.
Of course, we already live in a world where there are huge power imbalances between countries.
But AI is increasing that a lot and changing the map of those power imbalances.
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