The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis, with Aza Raskin
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Big Tech is moving fast on AI. But who's watching out for the rest of us? Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, has spent years sounding the alarm about where the race to build powerful AI is actually taking us. He joins Rapid Response to expose the incentive structures quietly pushing Silicon Valley toward dangerous territory, and to make the case that it's not too late to change course. Raskin also unpacks the significance of Pope Leo XIV's sweeping new encyclical on AI, what China's AI priorities reveal about the global race, and why the hidden assumptions baked into AI systems may be the most underestimated risk of all.
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| 1:20.8 | loop nukes don't make better nukes but ai does make better ai and whoever gets their first |
| 1:27.2 | theoretically gets a runaway lead |
| 1:29.5 | where their AI gets smarter and you get this explosion of intelligence, you can now outhack |
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| 1:40.3 | It means you can like have technological and weapons development dominance. And that thing could happen very quickly. |
| 1:46.3 | So that's the race. |
| 2:02.1 | That's Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. |
| 2:06.7 | You may know Aza as co-host of podcast Your Undivided Attention or from the documentaries The Social Dilemma and the AI Doc. |
| 2:10.8 | Alongside co-founder Tristan Harris, |
| 2:13.6 | Aza has become a leading voice on the dangers of AI acceleration. |
| 2:18.4 | And let's just say that we've never run a more important episode than today's. |
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