Arms Race (Part Two)

Red Pilled America

Patrick Courrielche, Adryana Cortez

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Should AI be stopped? In Part Two of Arms Race, we continue our story about the rise of game-playing AI systems – and how they spawned an artificial intelligence arms race.

The finale airs Friday, January 2nd, 2026.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
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0:28.1	Help us save America one story at a time.
0:33.5	This episode is based on actual events.
0:36.4	However, certain elements, characters, and situations have been fictionalized for the purposes of storytelling.
0:43.9	Previously on Red Pilled America.
0:45.9	The danger of AI is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads.
0:50.9	Dr. Samuel programmed the computer to play checkers so he could study machine learning.
0:55.3	From the moment Dr. Samuel showed that his creation could beat a human,
0:59.2	AI researchers tried to create a computer that could beat a skilled chess champion.
1:04.3	At the age of 22, Gary Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov,
1:09.2	becoming the youngest world chess champion in history. Kasparov agreed Anatoly Karpov, becoming the youngest world chess champion in history.
1:12.5	Kasparov agreed to an unprecedented match against deep thought.
1:16.7	And in this position, the computer admits the feat.
1:19.6	Man may have kept its throne as Earth's king of intellect, but nearly everyone watching
1:24.3	believed that the reign of the supercomputer was near.
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