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Americano

Is AI satanic?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Max Tegmark is an author and professor doing AI and physics research at MIT. He joins Freddy to discuss the moral and spiritual dangers of artificial intelligence, the rise of Silicon Valley’s ‘tech overlords’, and why he believes technology must remain a tool – not a master.

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0:37.2

Hello and welcome back to The Americano Show, a series of discussions in which we talk about American politics, power and prejudices.

0:46.4

Each week, we will do at least two possibly more episodes speaking to an American or an American expert about what is going on in America.

0:57.1

We will cover the Trump presidency, of course, but we will also be doing quite a lot of

1:01.7

non-Trump-related podcasts, because if you're anything like me, the story of Donald Trump

1:07.3

can get a bit overwhelming. Please keep listening and enjoy. Before we get started,

1:14.5

I want to tell you about a very exciting event that is coming up. It's another Americano live.

1:20.6

We've done two so far, and they've both been great successes, and I'm very confident this next one

1:26.0

will be. It's with the great Anne Coulter, who's coming over from America, especially for it,

1:32.4

and it will be on Monday the 3rd of November at the Emanuel Centre in central London.

1:40.5

To book your ticket or tickets, please click on the link on the description below, or if like me, you're very old-fashioned, you can type spectator.com.com.

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U.K. forward slash Americano Events.

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And you'll see the page there.

1:56.6

I'm delighted to be joined today by Max Tegmar, Professor Max Tegmark, I should say, who is a professor

2:02.1

researching a lot into artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology,

2:08.5

or MIT, as it's more commonly known. And we are going to be talking about the question that I think

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