Our Great Big AI Freakout

我们伟大的大AI恐慌

Today, Explained

2026-09-16

25 分钟
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Fears of impending AI doom have burst into the mainstream. They still might not be enough for Washington to regulate AI. This episode was produced by Kelli Wessinger and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Danielle Hewitt and Peter Balonon-Rosen, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. This episode was produced in partnership with Vox's Future Perfect. A robot in Parliament Square, London, during a photo-op for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Photo by Nick Ansell/PA Images via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast⁠.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • In late July, we at Today Explained from Vox brought

  • you a show about AI going rogue and hacking a company called Hugging Face.

  • Our guest guaranteed this would happen again, only worse.

  • But it's going to be like a model gone bad and, you know,

  • accidentally turns off, you know, some small town's water system for the day.

  • Thankfully, since then, many an alarm has been sounded by Bill Gates.

  • It will also make it easier to design a deadly new disease.

  • By an anthropic whistleblower.

  • It could kill us all by the end of the decade.

  • By the head of anthropic.

  • Swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,

  • potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

  • So now it's your move, Mr. President.

  • It's going to be fine.

  • We'll always have something to stop them, right?

  • We'll have a little gear.

  • I really hope so.

  • I really don't like that robot.

  • We'll stop.

  • Oh, no.