Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse
Apr 22, 2026 · 3 min · 8 segments
The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history…
I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.
[suspenseful music] It is currently the year 2026.
The world is at war.
Reality is shifting under our feet, and we have entered a new era of the apocalypse.
While still reckoning with the existential threats of nuclear war, climate collapse, and looming pandemics, a new man-made engine of extinction has emerged: total annihilation via artificial intelligence, the AI apocalypse.
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I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.
[suspenseful music] It is currently the year 2026.
The world is at war.
Reality is shifting under our feet, and we have entered a new era of the apocalypse.
While still reckoning with the existential threats of nuclear war, climate collapse, and looming pandemics, a new man-made engine of extinction has emerged: total annihilation via artificial intelligence, the AI apocalypse.