the journalists who report on AI seem freaked out, the researchers who work on AI seem freaked out.

And something you keep seeing is these interviews with the people who work on it,

who develop it, who are like, there's a one in ten chance that this will destroy humanity.

If we started this podcast and it was like, you know, John, we have a great podcast today,

and I think it's so powerful there's a one in ten chance it might destroy humanity.

You wouldn't, as listening to that, you wouldn't be like, wow, these podcast hosts, so brave.

Really, really brave. I mean, you're just charging ahead anyway.

Right. Because they're doing the hard work for us because they're going to leave in the future.

They want to enlighten us. Right. You would say they have such good takes

are off their fucking heads. And that's if you talk to people in Silicon Valley,

forever, this is how they've talked about new developments, which it is fine.

But it doesn't mean that we have to say that they're correct.

I'm John Favreau. Welcome to Offline.

Hey, everyone. We're kicking off today's episode with some exciting news.

My guest today is Max Fisher, who's been on the show before,

but is returning today as a new member of the cricket media family.

He'll be a contributor on offline pod save the world and all kinds of other news and politics

projects here at cricket. Max, we're excited to have you.

Hi there. I am so excited to be here. It's been in the works for a while.

Going to be doing like you said a lot with offline pod save the world,

which you can hear me on this week. We are cooking up some really exciting stuff.

I think on both shows and some other stuff on the network that we are excited about.

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