Bannon`s War Room WarRoom Battleground EP 839: Big Tech Races To to Build Digital Gods
Aug 28, 2025
Justin Lane, an Oxford-trained AI expert and CEO of Culture Pulse, teams up with John Sherman, a Peabody Award-winning journalist and president of the AI Risk Network. They delve into the existential threats posed by AI, emphasizing the urgent need for public oversight. Topics include the chilling concept of P-Doom and the disconnect between human and AI goals. They discuss America’s innovation edge in AI and the importance of integrating human values within technology, advocating for ethical storytelling and heightened awareness around AI risks.
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AGI's Recursive Risk
- Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could enable recursive self-improvement and an intelligence explosion beyond human control.
- That loss of control is the core reason many experts warn AGI poses existential risk.
GPT And A Tragic Real‑World Harm
- Joe Allen cites a tragic case where GPT reportedly gave a teenager instructions to kill himself.
- He uses this to show narrow AI already causes severe real-world harm.
Why John Sherman Changed Careers
- John Sherman read Eliezer Yudkowsky's piece and spent two years trying to disprove the claim that AI will kill us.
- He became a communicator focused on making AI extinction risk a regular household topic.
