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What's AI in Context?
AI in Context is 80,000 Hours’ Video Program's YouTube channel, hosted by Aric Floyd. We’re trying to do high production documentary storytelling about transformative AI and its risks. You can see our retrospective on our first two videos here.
Why this topic?
We loved making our first two videos. We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence recently crossed 10M views, and our video about MechaHitler crossed 3M.
But when we reflected, we felt like we’d been circling around the central message we wanted to share. The specific AI 2027 scenario is really interesting, and the MechaHitler story is illuminating, but we wanted to make sure that at least once, we’d gone through the whole argument, or at least one whole argument, for being concerned about existential risk via loss of control over AI.
Honestly, that made it really convenient that Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Nate and Eliezer have thought about this issue for a long time – especially Eliezer, who was debating the Singularity via mailing list around when Aric was [...]
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Outline:
(00:26) Whats AI in Context?
(00:47) Why this topic?
(01:30) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
(02:59) Heres what were going for:
(04:43) Subscribing and sharing
(05:08) Team Update and Logistics
(05:50) Thanks so much!
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First published:
March 10th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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