For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

In Episode #13, “Uncontrollable AI” TRAILER John Sherman interviews Darren McKee, author of Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. In this Trailer, Darren starts off on an optimistic note by saying AI Safety is winning. You don’t often hear it, but Darren says the world has moved on AI Safety with greater speed and focus and real promise than mos...

In Episode #12, we have our first For Humanity debate!! John talks with Theo Jaffee, a fast-rising AI podcaster who is a self described “techno-optimist.” The debate covers a wide range of topics in AI risk. This podcast is not journalism. But it’s not opinion either. This show simply strings together the existing facts and underscores the unthinkable probable outcome, the end of all life on earth...

In Episode #12 TRAILER, we have our first For Humanity debate!! John talks with Theo Jaffee, a fast-rising AI podcaster who is a self described “techno-optimist.” The debate covers a wide range of topics in AI risk. This podcast is not journalism. But it’s not opinion either. This show simply strings together the existing facts and underscores the unthinkable probable outcome, the end of all life...

In Episode #11, we meet Stephen Hanson, a painter and digital artist from Northern England. Stephen first became aware of AI risk in December 2022, and has spent 12+ months carrying the weight of it all. John and Steve talk about what it's like to have a family and how to talk to them about AI risk, what the future holds, and what we the AI Risk Realists can do to change the future, while keep...

In Episode #11 Trailer, we meet Stephen Hanson, a painter and digital artist from Northern England. Stephen first became aware of AI risk in December 2022, and has spent 12+ months carrying the weight of it all. John and Steve talk about what it's like to have a family and how to talk to them about AI risk, what the future holds, and what we the AI Risk Realists can do to change the future, wh...

In Episode #10, AI Safety Research icon Eliezer Yudkowsky updates his AI doom predictions for 2024. After For Humanity host John Sherman tweeted at Eliezer, he revealed new timelines and predictions for 2024. Be warned, this is a heavy episode. But there is some hope and a laugh at the end. Most important among them, he believes: -Humanity no longer has 30-50 years to solve the alignment and inter...

In Episode #10 TRAILER, AI Safety Research icon Eliezer Yudkowsky updates his AI doom predictions for 2024. After For Humanity host John Sherman tweeted at Eliezer, he revealed new timelines and predictions for 2024. This podcast is not journalism. But it’s not opinion either. This show simply strings together the existing facts and underscores the unthinkable probable outcome, the end of all life...

Do you believe the big AI companies when they tell you their work could kill every last human on earth? You are not alone. You are part of a growing general public that opposes unaligned AI capabilities development. In Episode #9 , we meet Sean Bradley, a Veteran Marine who served his country for six years, including as a helicopter door gunner. Sean left the service as a sergeant and now lives in...

Do you believe the big AI companies when they tell you their work could kill every last human on earth? You are not alone. You are part of a growing general public that opposes unaligned AI capabilities development. In Episode #9 TRAILER, we meet Sean Bradley, a Veteran Marine who served his country for six years, including as a helicopter door gunner. Sean left the service as a sergeant and now l...

Who are the most dangerous "doomers" in AI? It's the people bringing the doom threat to the world, not the people calling them out for it. In Episode #8 TRAILER, host Josh Sherman points fingers and lays blame. How is it possible we're actually really discussing a zero-humans-on-earth future? Meet the people making it happen, the real doomers. This podcast is not journalism. But...

Who are the most dangerous "doomers" in AI? It's the people bringing the doom threat to the world, not the people calling them out for it. In Episode #8 TRAILER, host Josh Sherman points fingers and lays blame. How is it possible we're actually really discussing a zero-humans-on-earth future? Meet the people making it happen, the real doomers. This podcast is not journalism. But...

You've heard all the tech experts. But what do regular moms think about AI and human extinction? In our Episode #7 TRAILER, "Moms Talk AI Extinction Risk" host John Sherman moves the AI Safety debate from the tech world to the real world. 30-something tech dudes believe they somehow have our authorization to toy with killing our children. And our children's yet unborn children to...

You've heard all the tech experts. But what do regular moms think about AI and human extinction? In our Episode #7 TRAILER, "Moms Talk AI Extinction Risk" host John Sherman moves the AI Safety debate from the tech world to the real world. 30-something tech dudes believe they somehow have our authorization to toy with killing our children. And our children's yet unborn children to...

In Episode #6, Team Save Us vs. Team Kill Us,, host John Sherman weaves together highlights and analysis of The Munk Debate on AI Safety to show the case for and against AI as a human extinction risk. The debate took place in Toronto in June 2023, and it remains entirely current and relevant today and stands alone as one of the most well-produced, well-argued debates on AI Safety anywhere. All of...

Want to see the most important issue in human history, extinction from AI, robustly debated, live and in person? It doesn’t happen nearly often enough. In our Episode #6, Team Save Us vs. Team Kill Us, TRAILER, John Sherman weaves together highlights and analysis of The Munk Debate on AI Safety to show the case for and against AI as a human extinction risk. The debate took place in June 2023, and...

In Episode #5 Part 2: John Sherman interviews Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville, and renowned AI safety researcher. Among the many topics discussed in this episode: -what is at the core of AI safety risk skepticism -why AI safety research leaders themselves are so all over the map -why journalism is failing so miserably to cover AI safety appr...

In Episode #5 Part 2, TRAILER: John Sherman interviews Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville, and renowned AI safety researcher. Among the many topics discussed in this episode: -what is are the core of AI safety risk skepticism -why AI safety research leaders themselves are so all over the map -why journalism is failing so miserably to cover AI s...

In Episode #4 Part 1, TRAILER: John Sherman interviews Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville, and renowned AI safety researcher. Among the many topics discussed in this episode: -why more average people aren't more involved and upset about AI safety -how frontier AI capabilities workers go to work every day knowing their work risks human extin...

In Episode #4 Part 1, TRAILER: John Sherman interviews Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Director of the Cyber Security Lab at the University of Louisville, and renowned AI safety researcher. Among the many topics discussed in this episode: -why more average people aren't more involved and upset about AI safety -how frontier AI capabilities workers go to work every day knowing their work risks human extin...

Episode #3: The Interpretability Problem. In this episode we'll hear from AI Safety researchers including Eliezer Yudkowsky, Max Tegmark, Connor Leahy, and many more discussing how current AI systems are black boxes, no one has any clue how they work inside. For Humanity: An AI Safety Podcast, is the accessible AI Safety Podcast for all humans, no tech background required. Our show focuses sol...

This is the trailer for Episode #3: The Interpretability Problem. In this episode we'll hear from AI Safety researchers including Eliezer Yudkowsky, Max Tegmark, Connor Leahy, and many more discussing how current AI systems are black boxes, no one has any clue how they work inside. For Humanity: An AI Safety Podcast, is the accessible AI Safety Podcast for all humans, no tech background requir...

Did you know the makers of AI have no idea how to control their technology? They have no clue how to align it with human goals, values and ethics. You know, stuff like, don't kill humans. This the AI safety podcast for all people, no tech background required. We focus only on the threat of human extinction from AI. In Episode #2, The Alignment Problem, host John Sherman explores how alarmingly...

Did you know the makers of AI have no idea how to control their technology, while they admit it has the power to create human extinction? In For Humanity: An AI Safety Podcast, Episode #2 The Alignment Problem, we look into the fact no one has any clue how to align an AI system with human values, ethics and goals. Such as don't kill all the humans, for example. Episode #2 drops Wednesday, this...

How bout we choose not to just all die? Are you with me? For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast is the AI Safety Podcast for regular people. Peabody Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction . The makers of AI openly admit it their work could kill all humans, in as soon as 2-10 years . This podcast is solely abou...

For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast is the AI Safety Podcast for regular people. Peabody Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction. The makers of AI openly admit it their work could kill all humans, in as soon as 2-10 years. This podcast is solely about the threat of human extinction from AGI. We’ll meet the h...