#147 - Andrea Miotti - The War Against AI Has Begun
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
What happens if we build something smarter than ourselves - and can't turn it off?
In this interview, I chat with Andrea Miotti about the global race toward superintelligent AI: systems designed to outperform humans across every task, operate autonomously, and integrate directly into the economy.
We discuss how today's AI tools quietly cross from assistance into replacement, why "kill switches" don't work, and how a handful of companies are pushing toward a point of no return.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - AI Extinction is Now? 00:01:22 - Alien Analogy 00:02:24 - Building Superintelligence 00:06:43 - Tools Becoming Agents 00:15:22 - Autonomous Systems Act 00:23:31 - Who Can Build This 00:29:07 - Why Containment Fails 00:38:51 - An Inhuman Economy 00:55:59 - No Kill Switch 01:07:05 - How Many Companies 01:27:35 - Do Humans Survive?
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| 0:00.0 | Are we possibly sleepwalking into our own extinction? |
| 0:03.6 | I think there is a big risk that we will go extinct. |
| 0:06.2 | If we don't do something about this soon, we will end up in a future where humanity is not the dominant species anymore on this planet. |
| 0:12.8 | We have given a complete control over our economy, over our countries, and now the AI are the ones running the show. |
| 0:20.0 | And so it's a continuum from losing jobs to losing everything. Some of them started talking about how can we, you know, band together and escape human control and be free. And again, I think should we, you know, should we be worried that this is Skynet, like this mold book is what kills us all? I'll go with Terminator 2. The reason I think we're already in the early stages of that, I think we're in the Cold War version of that. When you see Hollywood writers and actors striking, yeah. Because they're like, we're being replaced by AI and we don't want to be. I can totally see a scenario where people start attacking the robots. The important thing with superintelligence is, once we build it and once it's smarter |
| 0:57.3 | than us, we will not be able to control it. |
| 1:00.0 | And if we don't control it, it doesn't really matter whether the flag painted on the side |
| 1:03.2 | of the robot is an American flag or a British flag or a Chinese flag, we are all screwed. |
| 1:08.4 | I think unfortunately, like, reality is more difficult than a movie |
| 1:12.6 | like Terminator because in Terminator you see that the humanities is fighting back. |
| 1:17.6 | And I think in the real world, the time to fight back is now. |
| 1:22.6 | If there is a AI-sparked human extinction event, how soon could that be? |
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| 1:56.3 | Andrea, there's a, and there's a NASA thought experiment that if we received an alien signal, and it appeared like the aliens were traveling across the universe and would be reaching us within 10 years, there would be some kind of panic. |
| 2:10.3 | Like, what is this going to bring to our planet? Are they here to destroy us? |
| 2:14.1 | And yet currently, all around the world, we've got people essentially building an alien fleet that we don't know what is going to happen and what is going to cause for our society and our cultures. |
| 2:28.3 | Are we possibly sleepwalking into our own extinction? |
| 2:32.6 | I think we absolutely are. I think you put it perfectly. |
| 2:35.0 | Like, right now, |
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