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🗓️ 16 August 2025
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0:00.0 | This technology is being rolled out faster in any technology we've ever seen in our lifetime. It's basically dropped in our lap, this monster, right after COVID, and now we're kind of playing catch-up, and we're trying to deal with it. And some of the shock headlines, we've shown these before, but this is, you know, how bad could it get, this is how bad it could get. experts predict AI will lead to the extinction of humanity. We've seen a lot of people talk about this, |
0:04.3 | talked about it on this show. But then there's another one. Time magazine. AI is as risky as pandemics and nuclear war top CEOs say. Well, we've heard a lot about pandemics from our government over the last four or five years, but we haven't heard about lot about the dangers of AI from we've heard we're |
0:38.0 | starting to, but pandemics have been rammed on our throat, the dangers of those. And what is the |
0:42.7 | danger? Well, one of the dangers is it's going to take away everyone's job. And well, we have a kind |
0:48.7 | of a test of that already. We just went through COVID, the lockdowns, the mandates, a lot of people |
0:53.8 | lost their jobs. |
0:55.1 | And in 2020, August of 2020, to be exact, this was an article by revolver, COVID-19 lockdowns |
1:01.8 | over 10 times more deadly than pandemic itself. So it says in this previous research, |
1:07.6 | this is five years ago. Previous research on job displacement and mortality has found that displaced workers face a significant increase in mortality rates from which lost years |
1:15.3 | of life can be estimated. Job losses and permanent job separations have been shown to correlate |
1:20.7 | directly with increases in heart disease, drug overdoses, lung cancer, liver disease, among |
1:25.1 | other factors of increased mortality risk. |
1:27.5 | So I didn't hear Elon Musk talk about this. |
1:29.7 | I didn't hear Sam Altman talk about this. |
1:32.0 | I just heard, you know, it's inevitable that I was going to take over your job and we'll |
1:36.0 | give you some universal basic income and keep you happy and maybe you can find another skill. |
1:41.4 | What about what about life years loss? |
1:43.6 | What about this? What about what we just went |
1:45.5 | through with the COVID pandemic? We have a test right there. The testing goes so well. And now we're |
1:50.3 | just going to accept this with AI. Okay. Well, here's how bad. What are we looking at here? Well, |
1:55.2 | here's Goldman Sachs. This is a bank analysis. They predict and they have to be pretty accurate |
1:59.9 | from the predictions. |
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