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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

ARE WE HEADED TOWARDS A DIGITAL DOOMSDAY?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

While MIT scientists and the newly elected Pope voice growing concerns about the profound challenges artificial intelligence may pose to humanity, two of the world’s top AI pioneers are reportedly building private doomsday bunkers. At the same time, record-high levels of annotated web traffic—largely driven by bots—and the explosion of AI-generated social media accounts are raising serious alarms about the future of digital trust and human agency.

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0:00.0

One of the things we've done in this show since we started is we show the viewers' narratives

0:05.2

that are not popular perhaps, but are going to become the major conversation talking points

0:10.4

throughout America and definitely the world, too.

0:13.1

We did that with COVID.

0:14.3

But one of the conversations, you reached out to me and said, look, we covered artificial

0:18.7

intelligence last week, and a lot of the public was giving you feedback saying

0:22.4

that was very important.

0:24.4

So I wanted to jump back in here,

0:25.8

because this seems to be one of the biggest conversation

0:28.2

we could be facing as humanity right now.

0:30.6

Last week, we showed MIT scientists.

0:33.7

And there's basically saying, we need to test this

0:36.0

like we tested the nuclear bomb, like Oppenheimer for its effects on you know to eradicate humanity luckily the nuclear bomb didn't do that but we have MIT scientists this was the headline AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk at escaping human control and then we also have the new Pope, Pope Leo the 14th, lays out a vision and identifies

0:56.0

AI as the main challenge for humanity.

0:59.0

So you have the Catholic Church even backing this and saying, look, this is what you have to watch out for.

1:03.0

This is the main challenge that we see as one of the world's biggest religious organizations

1:08.0

that could be a threat to humanity.

1:10.0

So you have these figureheads saying this, but we also have the inventors, the people with

1:13.9

their hands on this tech that are giving, I guess, not so subtle warnings.

1:18.7

One of these was in a recent article, this is Ilya Sutskiever.

1:22.1

Ilya Sutskiever is the co-founder and chief scientists of Open AI, he was.

1:26.9

He was the brain behind the large language model

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