For Humanity: An AI Safety Podcast
Hosted by John Sherman and John · The AI Risk Network
4.5from 33 ratings
- 139
- Episodes
- 122
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 5B
- YouTube views
About For Humanity: An AI Safety Podcast
For Humanity, An AI Risk Podcast is the the AI Risk Podcast for regular people. Peabody, duPont-Columbia and multi-Emmy Award-winning former journalist John Sherman explores the shocking worst-case scenario of artificial intelligence: human extinction. The makers of AI openly admit it their work could kill all humans, in as soon as 2-10 years. This podcast is solely about the threat of human extinction from AGI. We’ll name and meet the heroes and villains, explore the issues and ideas, and what you can do to help save humanity. theairisknetwork.substack.com (https://theairisknetwork.substack.com/s/for-humanity-an-ai-risk-podcast?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- The AI Risk Network
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
122 of 139 episodes have a transcript.
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tools, Not Replacements: Roman Yampolskiy's Line in the Sand
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The AI Kill Switch That Still Doesn't Exist
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Volunteer Fire Department's Plan Is To Watch It Burn
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Tools, Not Replacements: Roman Yampolskiy's Line in the Sand
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I think that we are like building by choice the physical backbone for our replacement. And I think we should probably just stop that. But that means then stopping useful technology, right? We want more self-driving cars. We want to save lives. Hundreds of thousands of people die from just incompetent human actions. I hate that the term AI, that label, is used to cover completely unrelated technologies. A useful tool for solving a specific problem to make our lives better is called AI. A godlike superintelligence we have no control over. The media calls it AI. And then you are supposed to decide, do you like AI or you don't? […]
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- Roman Yampolskiy
- Jim VandeHei
- David Senter
- Gary
- Jeffrey Ladish
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- YouTube views
- 4,661,621,143
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 24 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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John Sherman and John host the show. Published by The AI Risk Network.
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