Lobotomy Day

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Michael spent years fighting isolation, depression, and despair. Then he met Sam. If you’re having thoughts of suicide, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or the Crisis Text Line. For that, text TALK to 741741. This episode of Radio Atlantic was reported and produced by Ethan Brooks and edited by Theo Balcomb and Jocelyn Frank. It was mixed by Rob Smierciak and fact-checked by Yvonne Kim. The executive producer of Audio is Claudine Ebeid. The managing editor of Audio is Andrea Valdez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Radio Atlantic and I'm Hannah Rosen and today I have in the studio with me producer
0:08.3	Ethan Brooks.
0:09.3	Hey Ethan.
0:10.3	Hey Hannah.
0:11.3	What's going on?
0:12.3	I just know from working with you over the last few months that you're very interested
0:15.5	in AI and I just wanted to ask do you think the AI is going to kill us?
0:23.2	No yes.
0:24.2	I mean I've listened to scenarios of how AI could kill us and to be perfectly honest they
0:29.4	seem somewhat plausible, you know, they just seem immediately plausible.
0:34.6	Okay.
0:35.6	So you don't think they're not going to kill us, you just think they're not going to kill
0:37.8	us soon.
0:38.8	Right.
0:39.8	And also I've been told by people who are smarter than me that this is all a distraction
0:45.4	and what I really should be thinking about are like the immediate human concerns.
0:50.3	Got it.
0:51.3	Which actually is kind of hard just because this particular technological advance is so
0:57.5	enormous or so we've been told is so transformative or so we've been told that makes it seem
1:05.0	abstract.
1:06.0	It's like looking at the sun or something.
1:08.0	Yeah.
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