For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast AI Risk, Superintelligence & The Fight Ahead — A Deep Dive with Liv Boeree | For Humanity #74
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Nov 22, 2025 
Liv Boeree, a semi-retired professional poker champion and AI safety advocate, shares her insights on the complex landscape of AI risks. She discusses the uneven public understanding of superintelligence and the influence of misaligned incentives on technology and society. Liv emphasizes the importance of diverse perspectives, particularly from women, in shaping the future of AI. With her poker experience, she draws parallels between reading motives in games and assessing AI behaviors, while also offering coping strategies for navigating the emotional weight of existential risks.
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AI Is Mixed Blessing And Growing Concern
- AI is simultaneously exhilarating, useful, and terrifying as it embeds into daily life and disrupts it.
- Liv Boeree says public concern will grow because AI both aids research and amplifies harms.
Predict Danger Without Predicting Details
- You don't need to predict every action of a superintelligent system to conclude it's risky.
- Liv uses the Magnus Carlsen chess metaphor to show confident predictions are possible without full detail.
Use Present Harms To Explain Long-Term Risk
- Do not ignore present AI harms like job loss and addiction when arguing about long-term risk.
- Liv argues using immediate harms makes the misalignment argument more persuasive to the public.