The Dispatch Podcast Will AI Destroy Humanity? | Interview: Andy Mills
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Nov 17, 2025 
Andy Mills, host of The Last Invention, dives deep into the artificial intelligence revolution and its societal stakes. He explains the differences between AI, AGI, and ASI, and explores the starkly contrasting views from the doomers, scouts, and accelerationists. Mills recounts the Cold War’s impact on AI development and highlights the competitive AI race with China. The conversation even touches on the implications of AI for journalism and how it might transform or commoditize human creativity. A thought-provoking exploration of our AI-driven future!
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AI As A Historically Charged Turning Point
- Andy Mills frames AI as a moment both historically rich and urgently consequential, warranting deep reporting and public engagement.
- He argues the debate over AGI mixes history, philosophy, and contemporary politics and demands broader societal attention.
Tip About An AI 'Coup' Sparked The Series
- A Silicon Valley source claimed tech figures planned to replace American democracy with AI-run governance, which sounded outlandish at first.
- That tip pushed Mills to investigate and led to discovering serious debates inside AI labs about creating a new digital species.
Clear Definitions: AI, AGI, ASI
- Mills defines AI broadly as automation and AGI as systems matching a very smart human across tasks.
- He highlights AGI's potential to automate managerial and white-collar work and act as a brain for robots in physical jobs.
