Sep 24, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
Why have we stopped talking about the risk of nuclear war when the risk is greater than ever? What is a ‘nuclear winter’ and why are nuclear exchanges such extreme risks for the future of humanity?…
Carlo RovelliGuest
Rory StewartHost
And, and, and, and the interesting question is with AI is so manyfold, and we can get into that in a second, but there's a, there's a question of unreliability, hallucination.
There's a question of these, uh, models being trained to follow a particular form of logic, which may be exactly the logic that the military advisors of Kennedy and Khrushchev would have pushed for, which leads to war, as opposed to the strange forms of political imagination which allowed the three people to save it.
And then governments, uh, top governments are put in a sort of catch-23, catch-22.
And, and it does so basically by giving more responsibility to the AI to make decisions more quickly-
And, and then presumably Another big change that we faced is that it's not just that China has a nuclear weapon.
Today, Israel has a nuclear weapon, Pakistan has a nuclear weapon, India has a nuclear weapon, North Korea has a nuclear weapon, and of course, Britain and France have a nuclear weapon.
And, and, and, and the interesting question is with AI is so manyfold, and we can get into that in a second, but there's a, there's a question of unreliability, hallucination.
There's a question of these, uh, models being trained to follow a particular form of logic, which may be exactly the logic that the military advisors of Kennedy and Khrushchev would have pushed for, which leads to war, as opposed to the strange forms of political imagination which allowed the three people to save it.
And then governments, uh, top governments are put in a sort of catch-23, catch-22.
And, and it does so basically by giving more responsibility to the AI to make decisions more quickly-
And, and then presumably Another big change that we faced is that it's not just that China has a nuclear weapon.
Today, Israel has a nuclear weapon, Pakistan has a nuclear weapon, India has a nuclear weapon, North Korea has a nuclear weapon, and of course, Britain and France have a nuclear weapon.
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