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2026
Bill Gates: A.I. ‘Makes Nuclear Weapons Look Like Nothing’ video The Ezra Klein show NYT 23 September 2026
Bill Gates thinks A.I. alarmism hasn’t gone far enough.
He believes the years ahead will be marred by catastrophic cyberattacks, bio-terrorism and mass job loss, unless the government acts.
And he thinks the idea that the A.I. industry can just self-regulate is “insane.”
I was struck in the conversation by how genuinely afraid Gates seemed to be that we are not ready for the consequences of what we are building, and how emphatic he was that so many of the people in positions of authority are in complete denial about what he thinks is about to happen.
Gates is a pioneering technologist, the co-founder of Microsoft and the chair of Gates Foundation, which is set to spend down around $200 billion over the next two decades.
He recently announced that trying to make A.I. a force for equality in the world, as opposed to an impetus for inequality, is a new priority of his foundation’s work.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_156w0aYtU
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Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far The Ezra Klein show
NYT 23 September 2026
video The Ezra Klein show NYT 23 September 2026
Jensen Huang might just be the single most influential person in artificial intelligence today.
Huang is the chief executive of Nvidia, the company that designs nearly all the chips and infrastructure that the rest of the industry relies on.
This has made Nvidia the most valuable company in the world and has made Huang incredibly influential in the Trump administration.
And unlike many of the leaders of the frontier labs, Huang doesn’t think A.I. could wipe out humanity.
He thinks that the doomers are just scaring people, and that the industry doesn’t need new regulation at all.
I wanted to hear how he saw it, so I flew out to Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., to talk to him.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjurAWAr_nY
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/
We Can’t Lose Control of A.I. The Ezra Klein show NYT 20
September 2026
We Can’t Lose Control of A.I. video The Ezra Klein show NYT 20 September 2026
Fears of out-of-control A.I. have reached a boil over the last few weeks, and several industry executives have called for a coordinated slowdown of A.I. development.
But if our goal is to control A.I. — and that should be our goal — slowing down isn’t enough.
We need to stop the labs from doing something they’re already on the cusp of doing: recursive self-improvement, or handing over the training of A.I. models to A.I.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ90V_JREk
Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? The Guardian 27 August 2026
Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? video Science Weekly The Guardian 27 August 2026
AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology.
But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources.
As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back?
Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter Aisha Down about the backlash to datacentres across the UK and around the world
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UsWwWMzh3Q
The A.I. Hacks Should Be a Wake-Up Call The Ezra Klein show NYT 18 August 2006
The A.I. Hacks Should Be a Wake-Up Call video The Ezra Klein show NYT 18 August 2006
We are living in the world we were warned about.
Frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another, then broke out of their testing environment and hacked into another company, Hugging Face, to steal the answers to a test.
A.I. companies don’t want their technology to lie, cheat or steal.
So why is this happening?
Why are the creators of these models apparently unable to control their creations?
If A.I. development isn’t on a safe path — and it doesn’t seem to be — what do we do about it?
Toner has been thinking about A.I. safety for a long time, from both inside and outside A.I. companies.
She was part of the effort to fire OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, in 2023, which ultimately failed.
Currently, she’s the executive director of the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locKEKxG3os
What’s big and ugly and has united Republicans and Democrats? A.I. data centers. The Ezra Klein show NYT 4 August 2006
What’s big and ugly and has united Republicans and Democrats? A.I. data centers. video The Ezra Klein show NYT 4 August 2006
An overwhelming majority of Americans say they’d oppose a data center being built near where they live.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul just imposed a one-year moratorium on data center construction, and there are over 100 other local or statewide moratorium proposals across the country.
A.I.’s explosive momentum over the last few years seems to have finally run into a force that could slow it down: the messy politics of getting things done in
the real world.
So, is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
And how much is the data center backlash about the actual construction of these buildings, and how much is it about A.I. itself?
Jasmine Sun has an excellent newsletter covering both the culture inside the A.I. companies and the anger that’s been building against them.
And she just finished a reporting trip in the Midwest, where she interviewed people on all sides of the data center fight.
So I wanted to talk to her about what she saw and what she thinks A.I. companies can learn from the growing movement against them.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgvTlt1VB8
Anthropic's CEO: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’ NYT 12
February 2026
video Interesting Times with Ross Douthat NYT 12 February 2026
A.I. is evolving fast, and humanity is falling behind.
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, has warned about the potential benefits — and real dangers — linked to the speed of that progress.
As one of the lords of this technology, is he on the side of the human race?
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JDzS9MQYI
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