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AI Panic: Real Threat or Billionaire Theater?
This week, Dana and Anthony take on a question that sounds like a bad sci-fi trailer but is now a real debate in boardrooms and Congress: is AI actually going to end us?
Anthropic's own CEO just published an essay warning that swarms of AI agents could hijack the internet and run a persistent botnet within six to twelve months. Researchers keep casually tossing around double-digit odds that this ends badly for humanity within a decade. Meanwhile, Microsoft's AI chief says most white-collar jobs could be automated within 18 months.
So which is it — a real threat, or tech billionaires talking…
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