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This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

So I was hosting the line with Forrest Valkai wasn't too long ago.

And we were talking about AI.

A caller was asking, well, do you think that AI will develop to the point where human beings are pushed out of the equation?

AI starts making decisions based on its own interests, and we either become slaves or go extinct.

And by go extinct, I mean, we are killed by the technology that we have created.

You know, have we created the monster? And, you know, obviously nobody knows the answer

to the question. We're all looking around wondering, what does the future hold for better and worse?

I think Forrest and I agree that we had hoped technology would exist so that the more menial

tasks that human beings do could be taken over by the robot,

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