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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.1 | Today, the flood of AI slop that could make your family WhatsApp even worse. |
| 0:27.9 | The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have have proved very useful. |
| 0:35.5 | But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. |
| 0:41.6 | Back in 2014, Professor Stephen Hawking had a warning about artificial intelligence. |
| 0:49.0 | Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete |
| 0:57.4 | and would be superseded. Hawking died four years later, before the age of chat GPT, deep fakes, |
| 1:05.6 | and AI in every corner of modern life. What he might not have foreseen is its latest evolution. |
| 1:13.0 | Hawking's still out front! |
| 1:14.7 | Look at that speed down the main street! |
| 1:16.6 | 327 kilometres an hour from a wheelchair! |
| 1:20.1 | Hawking's likeness is now a frequent meme on absurd, |
| 1:24.1 | often nonsensical, AI-generated video. |
| 1:27.7 | The kind of surreal content you might have noticed while scrolling through Instagram |
| 1:31.4 | or sent by your dad on the family WhatsApp. |
| 1:37.3 | Wait a second. |
| 1:38.9 | There's a toddler on a pig out on the pitch. |
| 1:42.9 | The internet is now awash with this kind of video, known as AI slot. |
| 1:48.4 | I have a dream thinking about a dream. |
| 1:52.1 | After my dream, I'd like to speak to the manager. |
| 1:55.2 | What's wrong? |
| 1:56.2 | No one's changed my diaper in the last 10 minutes. |
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