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In Episode #16 TRAILER, AI Risk Denier Down, things get weird.

This show did not have to be like this. Our guest in Episode #16 is Timothy Lee, a computer scientist and journalist who founded and runs understandingai.org. Tim has written about AI risk many times, including these two recent essays:

https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-im-not-afraid-of-superintelligent

https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-taking

Tim was not prepared to discuss this work, which is when things started to get off the rails.

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